SK hynix Inc. - SK海力士
"Technology Innovator for a Better World"
South Korean memory giant (KRX: 000660) and world's primary HBM3E supplier powering NVIDIA H100/H200 and other AI accelerators for robotics and AI compute.
SK hynix Inc. (KRX: 000660) is a South Korean semiconductor manufacturer headquartered at 2091 Gyeongchung-daero, Bubal-eup, Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea. It is the world's second-largest DRAM manufacturer and a leading NAND flash producer, subsidiary of SK Group. While traditionally known as a commodity memory supplier, SK hynix has become strategically critical to the AI and robotics compute ecosystem through its dominant position in High Bandwidth Memory (HBM).
HBM is a specialized 3D-stacked DRAM architecture that provides the extreme memory bandwidth required by AI training and inference accelerators. SK hynix supplies HBM3E (the 5th-generation HBM standard) to NVIDIA for use in H100, H200, and B200 AI GPU systems — chips that are the primary compute substrate for training and running the AI models powering autonomous robots, humanoids, and drone intelligence. The company was the first to mass-produce HBM3E 8-Hi and 12-Hi stacks.
Its product portfolio spans DRAM (DDR5, LPDDR5X for mobile and automotive), CMM (Compute Memory Module), SSD and NAND storage, MCP (Multi-Chip Package), and AI/server memory solutions. In the AI and advanced compute segment, SK hynix produces server DRAM, HBM for AI accelerators, networking memory, mobile LPDDR for edge AI devices, and automotive-grade memory for ADAS and autonomous driving systems. HBM demand from AI hyperscalers and robotics AI chip vendors (NVIDIA, AMD, Intel Gaudi) represents an increasingly large share of SK hynix revenue.
The company operates fabs in Icheon and Cheongju, South Korea, and Wuxi, China, and has announced major investments in an advanced packaging facility in Indiana, USA. Contact: +82-31-5185-4114. Representative Director: Kwak Noh-Jung. The company's AI memory product line is directly relevant to the AI infrastructure enabling autonomous robots, drone navigation, and humanoid AI inference.
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https://www.skhynix.com/PHONE
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Korea, Republic of (South)
Company Facts
Founded
1983
Primary Role
Component Supplier
Company Size
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Primary Region
Asia-Pacific
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Funding Stage
Subsidiary / Acquired
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- high bandwidth memory
- LPDDR5X
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- NVIDIA H100 memory
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