HBM boom propels SK hynix to global leadership in shifting memory landscape SEOUL, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) — In a historic reshuffling of the global memory chip hierarchy, SK hynix has edged past long-dominant rival Samsung Electronics in dynamic random access memory (DRAM) market share — the first such shift since Samsung took the top [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Following a historic year of profitability, the white-collar labor union at SK Hynix has entered annual wage negotiations with a bold proposal: an 8.25% salary increase alongside expanded performance bonuses and benefits. The first round of 2025 wage talks was held on May 28 at the company’s Icheon campus, marking [...]
TAIPEI, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Nvidia Corp. chief executive officer (CEO) Jensen Huang on Tuesday made a surprise visit to the booth of South Korea’s SK hynix Inc. at Computex 2025, a major information technology trade show held in Taiwan. Huang was personally guided through SK hynix’s booth by Kim Joo-seon, head of the [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics’ semiconductor division continues to trail Taiwan’s TSMC in quarterly sales, as surging demand for artificial intelligence (AI) chips solidifies the Taiwanese chipmaker’s lead in the global foundry market. According to industry data released on Sunday, Samsung’s Device Solutions (DS) division recorded 25.1 trillion won in revenue for the [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — As competition from Chinese firms intensifies and prices for older memory products plunge, major global semiconductor manufacturers are accelerating a strategic shift: phasing out legacy DRAM production and concentrating on high-end, high-margin memory technologies. According to Taiwanese market research firm TrendForce and local media reports on April 27, Samsung Electronics [...]
SEOUL, April 23 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Wednesday its 96 gigabyte double data rate 5 (DDR5) memory chips have passed customer validation, marking a key step toward production readiness. The new product, known as CMM-DDR5, is a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) solution for data center servers. When integrated into server systems, [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — As SK hynix accelerates its push to expand high-bandwidth memory (HBM) production, the company is working to stabilize its supply of a critical manufacturing tool — the thermal compression (TC) bonder — by diversifying its vendor base. The move comes amid a global surge in demand for HBM, driven largely [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won has visited Taiwan, and met with the chief of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) and officials from other semiconductor companies to discuss ways of strengthening cooperation in the semiconductor sector, sources said Thursday. During the meeting held earlier this week, Chey and TSMC CEO [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — For the first time in its history, SK Hynix has overtaken Samsung Electronics to claim the top spot in the global DRAM market, driven by surging demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) used in AI servers. According to data released Tuesday by Counterpoint Research, SK Hynix captured a 36% share of [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix announced Friday that it has completed its acquisition of Intel’s NAND memory business, solidifying its strategic push into the enterprise solid-state drive (SSD) market as demand for AI-driven data storage continues to soar. According to a regulatory filing with South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service, the transaction was officially [...]