SK Hynix

Money Moves

Drawing Samsung's engineers with bigger bonuses while approving $38 billion for two new fabs

On June 29, 2026, Seoul ordered Samsung and SK Hynix to build four new memory fabs in the southwest, the core of an $880 billion, 10-year buildout. On July 6, the government picked Gwangju Military Airport as the site, but the base also serves the US Air Force, and Washington now wants a say before Seoul can relocate it.

Updated Aug 9

New Capabilities

Co-author of the HBF standard

AI chips are starving for memory. On August 4, 2026, SK hynix and Sandisk published the first open technical standard for a possible fix: High Bandwidth Flash, or HBF.

Updated Aug 4

Money Moves

Hardest-hit stock in the July 28 selloff

Chip stocks lost more than $1 trillion in market value on July 28, 2026. Memory maker SK Hynix fell about 14% and Samsung dropped over 10%, pulling South Korea's Kospi down roughly 9%. Nvidia slid more than 5% and briefly handed the title of world's most valuable company back to Apple.

Updated Jul 28

Money Moves

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 Jul 10

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

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

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