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...SK Hynix currently produces its HBM chips in South Korea....
...According to a person familiar with the matter, SK Hynix recently started to sell some machines again after it started to run out of storage space....
...“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...
...Korea’s SK Hynix will invest about $4bn in an advanced artificial intelligence chip packaging plant in Indiana, the company announced on Wednesday....
...SK Hynix is also developing an HBM4 chip that is expected to double processing speeds....
...Currently, only SK Hynix, compatriot Samsung Electronics and America’s Micron are capable of providing HBM chips....
...Last month, Chey Tae-won, chair of SK Hynix parent SK Group, held a virtual meeting with the US president to announce $22bn in semiconductor, electric vehicle battery and green technology investments in...
...“We will provide full support, together with SK Hynix, to ensure that our companies won’t fall behind in the global chip cluster race,” South Korea’s industry minister Ahn Duk-geun told SK Hynix executives...
...SK Hynix, a maker of memory chips, is building an advanced packaging facility in Indiana....
...“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.”...
...South Korea’s SK Hynix, one of Micron’s main competitors in the memory chip market, said this month it was investing about $4bn in an advanced AI chip packaging plant in Indiana, in partnership with Purdue...
...The approval of SK Hynix and other investors in the consortium was needed for the deal to go through....
...But the memory chips themselves, known as Dram, will continue to be produced by SK Hynix’s facilities in South Korea....
...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....
...SK Hynix was part of the Bain-led consortium that acquired Toshiba’s semiconductor unit, which was renamed Kioxia, for $18bn in 2018....
...Chinese leaders, after all, might be more concerned about showing weakness to the US and western world than ByteDance losing billions if TikTok is banned in America....
...More on chips: Samsung and SK Hynix have stopped selling used chipmaking equipment for fear of falling foul of US export controls on China and western sanctions on Russia. 4....
...The consortium Bain put together was intriguing from the beginning with the inclusion of Toshiba’s arch rival SK Hynix....
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...That leaves South Korean battery maker SK On’s joint venture with Chinese partners caught in the crossfire....
...Samsung and SK Hynix declined to comment on the issue....
...South Korea’s Samsung and SK Hynix, the world’s leading memory chipmakers, have stopped selling used chipmaking equipment lest they fall foul of US export restrictions, with used machines being stored in...
...However, they acknowledged that “more extreme rulings or bans” could impact Samsung and SK Hynix’s ratings....
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