SK Hynix’s Solidigm is reportedly seeking U.S. approval to send more chipmaking equipment to China as it weighs building a new NAND chip factory in America.
SK Hynix told TechCrunch the company hasn’t finalized any plans or arrangements yet.
The AI chip boom just produced its biggest Wall Street moment yet. Now SK Hynix and Samsung are being asked to build U.S. factories.
The world’s two largest memory chip companies vow to build more memory lab fabs as South Korea positions itself as an AI tech powerhouse country.
South Korean chip startup Xcena is betting that AI’s real bottleneck is not compute, but memory.
SK hynix’s potential U.S. listing could raise $10-$14 billion to help it build more capacity, encourage others to follow, and end the ‘RAMmageddon’ memory shortage.