Equity markets in Asia opened lower on Tuesday, with technology stocks leading the decline as investor anxiety over artificial intelligence valuations and upcoming earnings reports intensified.
The selloff, which has been building since last week, spread from South Korean exchanges to emerging-market assets and tech-heavy indices across the region.
Semiconductor manufacturers in South Korea and Japan faced the steepest losses, reflecting growing skepticism about the sustainability of massive AI-related capital expenditures.
Investors are increasingly questioning whether current revenue streams can justify the scale of infrastructure spending by major tech firms, a concern that has begun to erode confidence in the broader hardware supply chain.
This development marks a continuation of the broad-based retreat in global equities that began earlier in the week.
The decline is not isolated to a single company but represents a sector-wide repricing of risk, particularly for firms heavily exposed to the AI build-out cycle.