{"id":1008173,"date":"2026-05-16T10:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008173"},"modified":"2026-05-16T12:01:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T06:31:27","slug":"at-samsung-the-global-ai-boom-spurred-a-looming-strike-and-deep-divisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/16\/at-samsung-the-global-ai-boom-spurred-a-looming-strike-and-deep-divisions\/","title":{"rendered":"At Samsung, the global AI boom spurred a looming strike and deep divisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A looming 18-day strike at South Korean chip giant Samsung that has triggered worries within the government, rattled foreign investors and threatened global supply chains rests on one crucial question: who should share in the spoils of the AI boom? <\/p>\n<p>More \u200bthan 45,000 workers are threatening to stage the largest strike in the conglomerate&#8217;s history from May \u200b21, reducing production of memory chips that are crucial components in AI data centres, smartphones and laptops, as Samsung and its union struggle to find a compromise over bonus payouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A looming 18-day strike at South Korean chip giant Samsung that has triggered worries within the government, rattled foreign investors and threatened global supply chains rests on one crucial question: who should share in the spoils of the AI boom? More \u200bthan 45,000 workers are threatening to stage the largest strike in the conglomerate&#8217;s history from May \u200b21, reducing production of memory chips that are crucial components in AI data centres, smartphones and laptops, as Samsung and its union struggle to find a compromise over bonus payouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}