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Two South Korean companies named Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix now manufacture roughly two-thirds of the memory chips inside almost every digital device on Earth — produced inside a country whose 1953 per-capita income was lower than Somalia's or Haiti'sOpen any device built in the past five years, look inside its memory subsystem, and the chips you find were almost certainly fabricated in one of three South Korean industrial cities — Hwaseong, Pyeongtaek, or Icheon — by one of two companies whose combined market capitalisation now exceeds $700 billion. The historical improbability of this […]