| 📊 Amazon Q2 Earnings Key Highlights (Earnings Surprise) Net Sales: 200.6B (Up +20% YoY, beating market expectations of approx.196.7B)
Operating Income: $27.5B (Up +43% YoY)
AWS Cloud Revenue: $42.2B (+37% YoY explosive growth / Fastest growth rate recorded in the last 18 quarters)
Earnings Per Share (EPS): 5.75 (Reflecting a massive gain of53.4B related to private investment in Anthropic)
One-line commentary: Following Microsoft and Meta, Amazon's cloud (AWS) revenue growth accelerated rapidly (+37%), decisively shattering the market's previous concerns over the "AI cloud peak-out controversy." 🚀 Massive Impact on the Semiconductor Sector (Very Positive) Amazon's earnings report and executive messages released today act as a very strong positive catalyst for semiconductor stocks (especially NVIDIA, Micron, DRAM, etc.). ① Surge in Capital Expenditures (CapEx) ➡️ Direct benefit to semiconductor demand
Purchases of property and equipment, including capital expenditures (CapEx) for Amazon's AI infrastructure expansion, increased by $66.1B (approx. 88 trillion KRW) year-over-year.
This proves the fact that Big Tech (MS, Meta, Amazon) is pouring enormous amounts of money into building data centers, which translates into a powerful tailwind for NVIDIA GPUs and high-performance memory semiconductors (DRAM/HBM/Micron) going into data centers. ② Triple-digit growth in AI chips and cloud performance
According to Amazon's earnings release, the annualized revenue run rate for AWS's AI business and its custom AI chips (such as Trainium) each surpassed $25B (approx. 33 trillion KRW), demonstrating explosive triple-digit (over 100%) growth.
The news that giant AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic signed large-scale infrastructure agreements with Amazon indicates that the AI semiconductor pie itself is expanding rapidly without deceleration. | 
