South Korean retail investors made aggressive bets on a semiconductor and technology rebound, net purchasing $712.91 million, or about ₩984.5 billion, of SOXL (Direxion Daily Semiconductors Bull 3X Shares ETF) between the 17th and 24th, according to Korea Securities Depository data queried on the 25th. The ETF targets three times the daily return of the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index. Memory-focused products and individual technology shares also attracted substantial inflows, including $88.78 million into the Roundhill Memory ETF, $47.51 million into QQQM, $46.96 million into RAM, and $102.9 million into SanDisk. Nvidia’s earnings release on the 26th is being watched as a major indicator for the Nasdaq and broader AI investment trade. Meanwhile, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are expanding NAND investment at their Chinese production bases, despite U.S. semiconductor export controls, as the AI-driven memory boom increases the strategic importance of those facilities.