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SK Hynix Bets Big on Advanced Packaging With New Cheongju Fab

SK Hynix Bets Big on Advanced Packaging With New Cheongju Fab

SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. said Tuesday it will invest heavily in a new advanced semiconductor packaging plant in central South Korea as it moves to strengthen its position in the fast-growing market for high-bandwidth memory, a critical component in artificial intelligence computing. The company plans to spend 19 trillion won ($12.9 [...]

SK Hynix Seeks Regulatory Relief to Raise Capital for Massive Chip Projects

SK Hynix Seeks Regulatory Relief to Raise Capital for Massive Chip Projects

SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Hynix on Wednesday urged South Korea’s government to loosen fair-trade regulations, arguing that existing ownership rules are ill-suited to the scale and financial demands of investment in the artificial intelligence era. The chipmaker said regulatory flexibility is needed to allow it to set up special purpose companies with [...]

SK hynix Tries a New Kind of Chip: One You Can Eat

SK hynix Tries a New Kind of Chip: One You Can Eat

SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix, one of the world’s leading makers of high-bandwidth memory chips, has decided that the path to public affection might just run through the snack aisle. On Wednesday, the company announced a collaboration with convenience-store giant 7-Eleven to release what may be the most literal tech-themed treat yet: an [...]

SK hynix Signals Megascale Bet on AI With Expanded Yongin Chip Cluster Investment

SK hynix Signals Megascale Bet on AI With Expanded Yongin Chip Cluster Investment

SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – SK hynix Inc.’s expanded investment plan for its new chip cluster will bolster its responsiveness to soaring global demand for memory chips amid the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, industry watchers said Tuesday. During a meeting held Sunday with President Lee Jae Myung and leaders of other major conglomerates, SK [...]

SK hynix Joins Korea’s ‘10-Trillion Club’ With Record Profit on AI Memory Boom

SK hynix Joins Korea’s ‘10-Trillion Club’ With Record Profit on AI Memory Boom

SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix reported the highest quarterly profit in its history, buoyed by surging global demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips that power artificial intelligence systems, becoming only the second South Korean company after Samsung Electronics to surpass 10 trillion won ($7.1 billion) in quarterly operating profit. The world’s second-largest memory [...]

SK hynix Unveils AI-Focused NAND Strategy at Global Data Center Summit

SK hynix Unveils AI-Focused NAND Strategy at Global Data Center Summit

SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix is positioning itself to expand its presence in next-generation data center technologies, unveiling a new lineup of NAND storage products tailored for artificial intelligence workloads at a major industry gathering in California. Speaking at the 2025 Open Compute Project Global Summit in San Jose, Kim Cheon-sung, head of [...]

SK hynix Ramps Up HBM Capacity as Nvidia Deal Nears

SK hynix Ramps Up HBM Capacity as Nvidia Deal Nears

SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. has begun installing production equipment at its new fabrication plant under construction in central South Korea, with the goal of starting operations next year, industry sources said Monday. According to the sources, the South Korean chipmaker has started installing production equipment in the cleanroom of the [...]