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 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — SK hynix Inc. topped the global market for dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) in the July-September period, data showed Friday, maintaining its lead for three consecutive quarters. SK hynix accounted for 34.1 percent of the global DRAM market in terms of sales in the third quarter, keeping the top spot [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Kwak Noh-jung, chief executive officer (CEO) of SK hynix Inc., said Monday his company will deepen its engagement in the artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem by forging closer ties with clients, adding it will strive to become a “creator” of AI chips instead of a simple provider. Under the vision, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — OpenAI unveiled an ambitious blueprint for its expansion into South Korea on Wednesday, calling for a dual-track strategy that combines the development of “sovereign AI” infrastructure with deeper international collaboration. The plan marks the company’s clearest signal yet that it views South Korea as a pivotal partner in the global [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Hynix is poised to report the highest quarterly operating profit in its history, surpassing 10 trillion won for the first time and becoming only the second South Korean company — after Samsung Electronics — to reach the milestone. According to a survey of brokerage forecasts compiled by Yonhap Infomax [...]