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… Link: SK Hynix Plans to Double Capacity to Ease Memory Chip Crunch | https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-02/sk-hynix-to-double-wafer-capacity-to-ease-memory-chip-crunch | Bloomberg
… Link: SK Hynix, Micron Join Trillion-Dollar Club | https://www.wsj.com/tech/sk-hynix-joins-trillion-dollar-club-alongside-nvidia-tsmc-b71fc8a0 | Wall Street Journal
… After reaching a $1 trillion valuation in May, SK Hynix briefly overtook Samsung as South Korea’s most valuable company. SK Hynix is one of three major companies benefitting from a surge in demand for DRAM and high-bandwidth memory HBM . …
Chipmaker SK Hynix, which supplies high-bandwidth memory HBM chips to Nvidia and Google, has overtaken Samsung, with Reuters reporting that its market capitalization has now hit $1.35 trillion. …
… SK Hynix had a similarly big debut on the US stock exchange earlier this month. Founded in 2016, CXMT revealed its first DDR5 RAM products last year, though they currently remain “roughly one generation” behind the top chips from Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron, the South China Morning Post reports. …
… Nvidia and SK Hynix are also reportedly testing Intel’s tech for manufacturing their chips. …
Chipmaker Changxin Technology Group is now the most valuable China-listed company after IPO’ing this morning, rising nearly 500 percent on speculation that RAMageddon will drive demand for its memory chips in a market dominated by Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron. …
… SK Group chairman has even said that shortages could last until 2030. The world’s largest memory makers — Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron — are all working to add new fabrication capacity, but almost none of it will be online until at least 2027, if not 2028. …
… Samsung is facing employee protests over demands for wages that are more competitive with rival chip manufacturer SK Hynix, including removing Samsung’s cap on bonus pay, allocating more money for bonuses, and raising base salaries. …
… The majority of the bonus will also be limited to stock, while SK Hynix bonuses can be issued in shares or cash, and Samsung has also made the bonus payments conditional on the company hitting profit milestones. …