On September 14, iShares Semiconductor ETF fell 5.14% in pre-market trading, trading at $499.67/share, with turnover of $68.22 million.

On the news front, multiple headwinds converged to drag down the semiconductor sector. Middle East tensions escalated sharply as Houthi forces attacked key Saudi oil pipelines while vessels were struck in the Persian Gulf, sending WTI crude futures above $103/barrel and triggering a sharp drop in risk appetite. Simultaneously, the CME FedWatch tool showed this week's rate hike probability climbing to approximately 86.5%, with rising Treasury yields pressuring high-valuation tech names. Adding to the gloom, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay calling for the industry to slow frontier AI model development, with OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk publicly endorsing the message. Japanese and Korean AI chip stocks plunged at their open, with SK Hynix falling over 5% and Samsung Electronics dropping 3.6%, creating global linkage pressure. Hong Kong semiconductor names also weakened, with SMIC down nearly 2% and Hua Hong down over 2%.

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