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A memory-chip maker overtakes an automaker as Japan's most valuable firm

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Kioxia, up 600% this year, overtook Toyota as Japan's most valuable firm, while Nvidia, shut out of China's GPU market, began pitching Arm-based Vera CPUs to Chinese clients and Google courted Samsung to help build a future AI chip as the crunch pushed past TSMC.

Reported metric: +600%

Reporting date: 2026-06-12 (not necessarily the event date)

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A memory-chip maker overtakes an automaker as Japan's most valuable firm
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Reporting date: 2026-06-12
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-06-12-a-memory-maker-passes-an-automaker
Claim: Kioxia, up 600% this year, overtook Toyota as Japan's most valuable firm, while Nvidia, shut out of China's GPU market, began pitching Arm-based Vera CPUs to Chinese clients and Google courted Samsung to help build a future AI chip as the crunch pushed past TSMC.
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