Shares of Samsung Electronics surged more than 10% Wednesday, pushing the chip giant's market capitalization past the $1 trillion mark as investors continued to pile into artificial intelligence-linked stocks. Samsung became the second Asian company to cross the $1 trillion mark, after TSMC. The company first crossed that $1 trillion market capitalization threshold on Feb. 26, according to FactSet data. The rally followed Samsung Electronics' record first-quarter earnings last week. Operating profit surged more than eightfold to 57.2 trillion won, while revenue climbed to a record 133.9 trillion Korean won Samsung's first-quarter operating profit also topped its full-year 2025 profit of 43.6 trillion won. The rally also followed a Bloomberg report that Apple has held exploratory talks with Samsung and Intel to produce chips for Apple devices in the U.S., potentially diversifying beyond longtime supplier TSMC.…