A profile of South Korea's SK Hynix, a once unloved memory chipmaker that now enjoys 58% operating margins and a ~$438B market cap amid the global HBM shortage
Once unloved SK Hynix is enjoying 58% operating margins amid a global shortage of memory chips
Samsung reports Q4 revenue up 24% YoY to ~$65.6B, vs. ~$65.28B est., and operating profit up 200%+ to ~$14.06B, driven by memory chip price hikes and HBM demand
Samsung Electronics shares rose 2.4% Thursday after the company reported an over threefold surge in fourth-quarter operating profits …
Sources: Nvidia has allocated ~70% of its 2026 HBM4 demand to SK Hynix; Counterpoint estimates SK Hynix will account for 54% of the global HBM4 market in 2026
SK hynix Inc. has secured over two-thirds of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) supply orders from U.S. tech giant Nvidia Corp. to be used …
Filing: China's top DRAM maker CXMT plans to raise $4.2B in a Shanghai IPO; CXMT held a 4% global share in Q2 2025 and targets HBM production by the end of 2026
China's leading maker of DRAM chips, ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) Corp, said on Tuesday it plans to raise 29.5 billion yuan …
Nvidia agrees to a licensing deal with Groq; CEO Jonathan Ross and other top executives will join Nvidia; Groq says it will continue operating independently
anybody who knows anything about AI chips knows groq's first gen chips aren't competitive but maybe their upcoming chips might have been able to threaten nvidia? @josephjacks_ : Overly simplistic take...
An in-depth look at a recent research paper that offered a roadmap to the viability of 3D HBM-on-GPU integration for improved AI performance and utilization
Five Things You Should Know Before Reading: — “3D HBM” Now Feasible: Offers improved AI performance and utilization.
Sources: Micron plans to invest $9.6B in Japan to build a production facility for next-gen HBM memory chips beginning in 2026, with shipments expected in 2028
TOKYO — U.S. semiconductor manufacturer Micron Technology will invest 1.5 trillion yen ($9.6 billion) to build a production facility …
AMD CEO Lisa Su says AMD's annual revenue growth will average more than 35% and AI data center revenue growth will average 80% over the next three to five years
Lineup confirms 2026 release for Zen 6, coming with expanded AI features Samantha Subin / CNBC : AMD stock soars 10% on strong growth projections as CEO Su calls AI spending ‘the right gamble’ Kara Gr...
TrendForce estimates DRAM in 2026 will bring in over 4x as much revenue as the 2023 trough, reaching a record ~$231B, driven by AI industry demand for HBM chips
Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal :
SK Hynix says its DRAM, NAND, and HBM production capacity for next year “has been sold out” and that it would set up a production system to meet OpenAI's demand
Song Jung-a / Financial Times :