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SK hynix owed 70% to US and 25% to Nvidia for record 2025 sales SEOUL, March 17 (AJP) - SK hynix has effectively pivoted into an American-centric powerhouse, with nearly 70 percent of its record-breaking 2025 revenue originating from U.S. customers, with NVIDIA alone accounting for a quarter, according to its annual business report released Tuesday. The fiscal transformation, fueled by an insatiable appetite for High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) among Silicon Valley giants, pushed the company into a "net cash" position for the first time March 17, 2026
SK hynix eyes US ADR listing SEOUL, March 17 (AJP) - SK hynix is considering a U.S. stock-market listing in a bid to woo global investors, SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won said on Monday. Choi, who is currently attending Nvidia's annual GTC conference in San Jose, told reporters, "We are reviewing a listing via American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) to expand the company's investor base." ADRs allow non-U.S. companies to trade their shares on U.S. stock exchanges through depositary banks rathe March 17, 2026
Samsung-SK hynix faceoff at NVIDIA GTC as race for HBM4 enters cutthroat phase SEOUL, March 17 (AJP) - The world’s most consequential semiconductor rivalry is increasingly being fought not in fabs but on the stage of artificial intelligence. At this year’s NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, the annual gathering hosted by Jensen Huang drew the usual global crowd eager to hear where AI infrastructure is headed next. But behind the keynote spectacle, another story unfolded: South Korea’s memory giants Samsung Electronics and March 17, 2026
Samsung challenges SK hynix HBM dominance with HBM4E debut via NVIDIA alliance SEOUL, March 17 (AJP) - Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced on Tuesday at NVIDIA GTC 2026 the first public showcase of its next-generation High Bandwidth Memory 4E (HBM4E) and its role as a provider of a comprehensive memory and storage total solution for NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin platform. The South Korean chip giant presented physical HBM4E chips and core die wafers, detailing a product that supports speeds of 16 gigabits-per-second per pin and a total bandwidth of 4.0 tera March 17, 2026
Samsung to end sales of premium foldable phone just months after launch SEOUL, March 16 (AJP) - Samsung Electronics will stop selling its twice-folding smartphone just three months after its release in South Korea. According to industry sources, sales of the high-end, premium Galaxy Z Tri-Fold are set to end after Tuesday. Since its rollout on Dec. 12, the device has been sold only in limited batches through Samsung.com, typically once every one to two weeks on Tuesdays. Once Tuesday's inventory sells out, the Galaxy Z Tri-Fold will no longer March 16, 2026
SK hynix now most favorite workplace among jobseekers, overtaking Samsung SEOUL, March 16 (AJP) - SK hynix has surpassed Samsung Electronics as the most preferred employer among job seekers in South Korea. Online job-search site Saramin said on Monday that it conducted a survey of over 2,000 job seekers and found that about 20 percent of them named SK hynix as their most sought-after employer. It marks the first time Samsung Electronics has lost the top spot since similar surveys began in 2009. The electronics giant, which had long held a dominant le March 16, 2026
Samsung's agentic-AI flagship posts record presales, software edge in premium market SEOUL, March 12 (AJP) - Samsung Electronics’ latest AI-strong flagship is off to a bar-raising debut, signaling a shift in the premium handset race from hardware specifications toward practical artificial intelligence features. The Galaxy S26 series, launched Wednesday in more than 120 countries including South Korea and the United States, logged 1.35 million preorders in its home market, the highest ever for the Galaxy S lineup. Industry observers say the strong earl March 12, 2026
Samsung strike risk rises as 60 percent of union members cast ballots SEOUL, March 11 (AJP) - The likelihood of a strike at Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest memory chipmaker supplying about a quarter of global DRAM, is rising as more than 60 percent of its unionized workers have cast ballots on collective action over disputes about employee bonuses. A joint strike committee representing three Samsung labor unions said Wednesday that over 60 percent of their roughly 90,000 members had participated in the vote since balloting began Mond March 11, 2026
SK hynix expands AI memory portfolio beyond HBM with LPDDR6 breakthrough SEOUL, March 11 (AJP) - SK hynix said Tuesday it has developed the world’s first 16-gigabit LPDDR6 DRAM built on its sixth-generation 10-nanometer-class (1c) process, positioning the chipmaker to capture the next wave of artificial-intelligence demand spilling over from data centers to smartphones and mobile front. The new mobile memory, designed for devices running on-device AI, improves data processing speed by 33 percent and boosts power efficiency by more than 20 perce March 11, 2026
Samsung shares head north on record R&D, buyback plan in AI chip push SEOUL, March 11 (AJP) - Shares of Samsung Electronics headed north as investors welcomed the South Korean tech behemoth’s record spending — amounting to nearly a third of last year’s revenue of over $200 billion — to advance chipmaking capabilities in the AI-driven era while sharing the memory boom with shareholders. According to its 2025 business report disclosed Tuesday, the company invested a record 37.7 trillion won ($28.3 billion) in research and deve March 11, 2026