South Korean manufacturer of memory chips SK Hynix has published another report. It includes data for the fourth quarter of 2021 and for the year as a whole. SK Hynix’s fourth-quarter revenue was $10.22 billion. In the fourth quarter of 2020, it was equal to 6.57 billion dollars, that is, an increase in annual terms […]
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Platinum P41 SSD uses SK hynix proprietary controller
SK hynix has unveiled the fastest M.2-2280 SSD in its own brand, the Platinum P41. Targeting the enthusiast home PC segment, it is the first SK hynix customer segment to feature PCIe 4.0 x4. The drive uses a proprietary SK hynix controller codenamed Aries, the latest 176-layer 3D NAND flash and DDR4 DRAM cache. SK […]
Intel’s former NAND flash and solid-state drive business will be named
As previously reported, SK hynix received approval from the Chinese antitrust authority last week to take over Intel’s NAND flash and solid state storage division. Yesterday, the South Korean manufacturer announced the completion of the first phase of its acquisition of the said division. With the $ 7 billion payment, SK hynix took over Intel’s […]
China allows SK Hynix to buy Intel’s NAND flash business, subject to certain conditions
South Korean company SK Hynix today announced that it has received approval from the Chinese antitrust authority to take over Intel’s NAND flash memory business. The agreement between SK Hynix and Intel was reached in October last year. The deal is valued at $ 9 billion. Intel believes the sale will help focus on the […]
Almost 1 TB / s. Hynix Introduces HBM3 – World’s Fastest DRAM
SK Hynix claims to be the first in the industry to successfully develop HBM3 memory. Recall that the mass production of HBM2E started only in July last year, and at the moment there are practically no products on the market using such memory. Going back to HBM3, the bandwidth per stack is 819 GB / […]
SK Hynix’s revenue grew 20% year over year, operating profit up 38%
SK Hynix has published a report for the second quarter of this year. For the reporting period ended June 30, the South Korean semiconductor manufacturer generated $ 8.94 billion in revenue. This is 22% more than in the previous quarter and 20% more in annual terms. The reported operating profit of $ 2.33 billion is […]
SK hynix begins serial production of 1a DRAM using EUV lithography
SK hynix announced this month that it has begun mass production of 8 Gigabit 1a mobile LPDDR4 DRAM chips, which is the fourth generation 10nm memory manufacturing process. Recall that for the first three generations, the designations 1x, 1y and 1z were used. They corresponded to three sub-ranges of technological norms in the general range […]
SK Hynix reveals some details of HBM3 memory
SK Hynix is ​​at the forefront of the next generation of high bandwidth multilayer memory, HBM3. Like modern HBM2e memory, HBM3 memory will be used in multi-chip processor modules for supercomputers. Although the full specifications for HBM3 have not yet been released, the manufacturer has revealed some key details of the new standard. It is […]
European Commission approves deal between SK Hynix and Intel
As you know, in October last year, SK Hynix agreed with Intel to buy Intel’s NAND flash and solid-state storage business for $ 9 billion. This week, the South Korean manufacturer moved one step closer to completing the deal, which was approved by the European Commission. Previously received approvals from the US Federal Trade Commission […]
South Korea plans to invest $ 450 billion in semiconductor production
The South Korean government, along with 153 Korean companies, has unveiled an ambitious plan that calls for $ 450 billion in semiconductor investment. This amount will be allocated over the next decade. It is assumed that the implementation of this plan will ensure the competitiveness of the South Korean semiconductor industry at the global level […]