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...SK Hynix is the world’s leading producer of high-bandwidth memory chips, crucial components in Silicon Valley giant Nvidia’s graphics processing units, which are used to train systems such as Open AI’s ChatGPT...
...Samsung and SK Hynix, the world’s leading memory chipmakers, have stopped selling used chipmaking equipment for fear of falling foul of US export controls on China and western sanctions on Russia....
...“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 is the world’s leading supplier of high-bandwidth memory chips. It will partner with Purdue University to build the new facility at the university’s Research Park....
...Chipmaker SK Hynix reported a surprise fourth quarter profit on Thursday, as it benefits from booming demand for high-end AI memory chips....
...Chipmaker SK Hynix reported its first quarterly operating profit in more than a year as it benefited from booming demand for high-end artificial intelligence memory chips....
...TSMC, for example, which has no background in memory chip production, works closely on Nvidia’s AI chips with HBM market leader SK Hynix, which has no background in logic chip production....
...Shares in SK Hynix have more than doubled over the past year amid investor excitement over its “high bandwidth memory” chips used with Nvidia’s cutting edge processors....
...South Korean memory chip giant SK Hynix has expressed opposition to a proposed merger of chipmakers Kioxia and Western Digital, dealing a blow to Bain Capital’s ambitions to create a US-Japan chip champion...
...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....
...Shares in competitor SK Hynix fell 3.1 per cent on the day, while the broader Kospi benchmark index added 1.3 per cent....
...But the memory chips themselves, known as Dram, will continue to be produced by SK Hynix’s facilities in South Korea....
...SK Hynix, one of the world’s leading producers of memory chips, is concerned that the new company could challenge its position in the Nand memory sector....
...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....
...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....
...The approval of SK Hynix and other investors in the consortium was needed for the deal to go through....
...SK Hynix agreed to buy Intel’s Nand memory business for $9bn in 2020, in a move designed to increase the company’s production capacity....
...Samsung has reduced output since April to join rivals such as SK Hynix and Micron Technology....
...Last week, rival SK Hynix said Dram demand was being driven by an AI boom and that the impact of memory chip production cuts were beginning to take hold.Samsung slashed more output in the third quarter to...
...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....
...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....
...Related stories Asia 2024: A dozen companies to watch as the year unfolds SK Hynix rises to 2nd in South Korea market cap on chip recovery Global chip demand to rise by 2nd quarter of 2024, experts say...
...During a year-long supply glut between 2022 and 2023, Korean memory chipmakers SK Hynix and Samsung both slashed production as they suffered multibillion-dollar losses....
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