Desperate SK hynix customers offer to buy its EUV machines and fund new fabs as memory capacity hits zero amid crushing AI-driven shortages — worsening global shortages pry open wallets to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars
… Some customers have proposed funding dedicated memory production lines at SK hynix's facilities, according to people familiar with the discussions who spoke to Reuters , while others have offered to cover the cost of ASML EUV lithography machines, which are used to pattern circuits on silicon wafer… …