South Korea is investing $520 billion in Samsung and SK Hynix to build more HBM fabs for AI
… They will focus on producing lucrative HBM for the AI and data center markets rather than memory for the consumer technology market. …
… They will focus on producing lucrative HBM for the AI and data center markets rather than memory for the consumer technology market. …
… NVIDIA and AMD are already shipping data center AI hardware with high-end HBM memory like HBM3E , and neither is shy about teasing HBM4 for upcoming chips like Rubin and MI400. But HBM is getting harder to come by thanks to surging demand, and prices are climbing. …
… Pricing has not been announced, though the LPDDR5X approach strongly signals a cost-optimized positioning relative to HBM-based rivals. …
… In addition to this, SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won reportedly said that even though SK Hynix is one of the dominant players in the HBM high-bandwidth memory market for data center and AI-focused GPUs, he and SK Hynix are keenly aware that purely focusing on the lucrative HBM market will adversely … …
… The company held a 58% share of the global HBM market in the first quarter of 2026, with Samsung and Micron each at 21%. Chey expressed hope that SK Hynix would become the primary HBM supplier for NVIDIA's next-generation Vera Rubin system. …
… Instead, Micron can shutter its profitable, massive consumer- and OEM-facing Crucial brand as everyone pivots to HBM and everything AI. …
… In the interview, David pointed to the AI boom that has shifted supply away from consumer DDR5 and toward HBM for AI data centers. …
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… What makes it new is that it allows the GPU to access the SSD's high-speed flash memory as an extension of existing High Bandwidth Memory HBM in AI systems. …
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