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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....
...Chipmaker SK Hynix reported a surprise fourth quarter profit on Thursday, as it benefits from booming demand for high-end AI memory chips....
...SK Hynix is also developing an HBM4 chip that is expected to double processing speeds....
...SK Hynix objected to the deal over “the impact on our investment asset value,” chief financial officer Kim Woo-hyun told analysts on Thursday....
...Samsung’s new facility in Texas will be able to do both 2.5D and HBM packaging, while fellow Korean chipmaker SK Hynix is building an HBM plant in Indiana....
...Chipmaker SK Hynix rose 5.1 per cent, bringing its gains for the year to date to 25.9 per cent as investors rotate into semiconductor names with exposure to artificial intelligence....
...“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.”...
...Chip manufacturer SK Hynix gained 8.2 per cent as investors rush into semiconductors for artificial intelligence applications....
...Shares in competitor SK Hynix fell 3.1 per cent on the day, while the broader Kospi benchmark index added 1.3 per cent....
...Samsung is trying hard to catch up with rivals in the high-margin chips used in AI as it has trailed domestic rival SK Hynix in mass-producing the most advanced HBM chips....
...The approval of SK Hynix and other investors in the consortium was needed for the deal to go through....
...Operating losses at SK Hynix narrowed in the second quarter, helped by growing sales of high-end memory chips, heralding a slow recovery from the industry’s deep downturn....
...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....
...But the memory chips themselves, known as Dram, will continue to be produced by SK Hynix’s facilities in South Korea....
...SK Hynix was part of the Bain-led consortium that acquired Toshiba’s semiconductor unit, which was renamed Kioxia, for $18bn in 2018....
...Corporate earnings: Indonesia’s Bank Central Asia, South Korea’s SK Hynix, Hyundai Motor and Naver, and India’s Maruti Suzuki publish results....
...Samsung has reduced output since April to join rivals such as SK Hynix and Micron Technology....
...The collapse came after South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix had expressed opposition to the deal amid concerns that the combined entity could challenge its position....
...Washington extended a wavier granted to Samsung and SK Hynix indefinitely by including them in its “validated end user” list....
...In the Dram world, South Korea’s Samsung and SK Hynix and Micron of the US controlled 97 per cent of market share, while in HBM, SK Hynix and Samsung already had more than 92 per cent of the market....
...For most of last year, rival SK Hynix was the only company able to mass-produce the latest generation of HBM3 products, the ones that are used in Nvidia’s latest accelerators....
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