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Kwak Noh-Jung

Kwak Noh-Jung

Chief Executive Officer, SK hynix

Appears in 5 stories

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First open standard published for high bandwidth flash AI memory

New Capabilities

Co-leading the HBF standard and targeting the next-generation NAND market

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

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

Money Moves

Led the company's US listing

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

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

New Capabilities

Leading SK hynix through the HBM4 ramp and HBM4E qualification

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

Leading company through record-breaking performance

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

Leading company through HBM expansion

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