Seoul, Nov. 20 -- The stocks of South Korea's top chipmakers rose sharply on Thursday after Nvidia Corp. reported stronger-than-expected earnings for the fiscal third quarter, as per a report by Pulse, the English service of Maeil Business News Korea.

Shares of Samsung Electronics Co. traded up 3.63 per cent at 100,000 won (USD 68) as of 9:06 a.m. after touching an intraday high of 100,900 won. SK hynix Inc. jumped 5.34 per cent to 592,000 won.

The rally followed Nvidia's after-hours surge in New York, where the U.S. chipmaker posted a 62 per cent year-on-year sales jump to a record USD 57.01 billion for the August-October period, beating the $54.92 billion consensus compiled by market research firm LSEG, the Pulse report noted. Nvidia ...