SK Hynix

SK Hynix debuts on Nasdaq in largest US listing by a foreign company

Newly listed on Nasdaq

SK Hynix rang the Nasdaq opening bell on July 10 and raised about $26.5 billion. No foreign company has ever raised more in a US share sale.

Updated 5 days ago

South Korea directs $880 billion private buildout into chips and AI data centers

Money Moves

Building two of four new memory fabs

On June 29, 2026, South Korea directed Samsung and SK Hynix to build four new memory fabs in the southwest as part of an 880-billion-dollar, ten-year private buildout. Three days later, both companies had narrowed their Gwangju site candidates to two locations and pledged a combined 240 trillion won for the Chungcheong region, adding a second investment zone south of Seoul.

Updated Jul 2

SK hynix ships first 12-layer HBM4E samples for AI systems

New Capabilities

Market leader; first to ship HBM4, racing on HBM4E

Modern AI chips can crunch numbers faster than memory can feed them data. On June 18, 2026, SK hynix said it shipped samples of HBM4E, a stacked memory chip built to narrow that gap, to major customers.

Updated Jun 18

AI memory chip boom reshapes South Korea's stock market

Money Moves

World's largest high-bandwidth memory producer; all 2026 HBM capacity sold out

South Korea's benchmark KOSPI stock index crossed 6,000 points for the first time on February 25, 2026. It completed its climb from 5,000 to 6,000 in just 34 trading days, the fastest thousand-point advance in the index's history.

Updated May 29

The packaging pivot: why AI's real bottleneck isn't chips—it's putting them together

Built World

Market leader in HBM with 61% global share

For decades, chip packaging was the unglamorous final step—stacking and connecting silicon dies after the real engineering was done. Now it's the constraint holding back AI.

Updated May 20