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...SK Hynix currently produces its HBM chips in South Korea....
...Samsung and SK operate their own memory chip plants in China, which account for about half of their production capacity....
...“This is the first time that SK Hynix is ahead of Samsung in the memory technology race,” said Kim of Macquarie. “SK Hynix bet on HBM chips early on and it worked out well.”...
...The Biden administration in October gave Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, two of the world’s leading producers of memory chips, a one-year reprieve from export controls designed to reduce China’s ability...
...SK Hynix said it had not received a request from the South Korean government. Micron declined to comment....
...SK Hynix is also developing an HBM4 chip that is expected to double processing speeds....
...Glencore already has cobalt offtake agreements with battery makers SK Innovation and Samsung SDI, and carmakers BMW and General Motors....
...“SK Hynix doesn’t want to see a stronger competitor emerge,” said James Lim, an analyst at US hedge fund Dalton Investments. “The merged entity’s market share would be double that of SK Hynix.”...
...For now, just one company, SK Hynix, is able to mass produce the latest generation HBM3 products, the ones used in today’s AI chips....
...The approval of SK Hynix and other investors in the consortium was needed for the deal to go through....
...SK Hynix was part of the Bain-led consortium that acquired Toshiba’s semiconductor unit, which was renamed Kioxia, for $18bn in 2018....
...In 2022, it sold one of those holdings, TES, a battery recycling group, to South Korea’s SK ecoplant for $1bn....
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...That leaves South Korean battery maker SK On’s joint venture with Chinese partners caught in the crossfire....
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...Samsung and SK Hynix declined to comment on the issue....
...Samsung produces about 40 per cent of its Nand flash memory chips from its Xian plant, while SK Hynix’s plant in Wuxi in eastern China accounts for nearly half of its global D-Ram output....
...Hynix was rebranded SK Hynix in 2012 after it was taken over by the SK Group, another Korean conglomerate....
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...Samsung and SK Hynix said they were reviewing the 75-page guidelines, but declined to comment further....
...South Korea’s three leading battery producers — LG Energy Solution, Samsung SDI and SK On — have all declared their intention to develop such cells by the late 2020s....
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