The tech giant makes a profit after a year of losses thanks to AI

The world's second-largest memory chip maker, South Korea's SK Hynix, said it had returned to profit after four consecutive quarters of losses driven by demand for chips used in artificial intelligence.

Fast mobile RAM

SK hynix has started supplying its customers with 16 gigabyte (GB) packages of Low Power Double Data Rate 5 Turbo (LPDDR5T).

SK Hynix did not want it to happen

Negotiations to merge Western Digital's semiconductor memory business and Japan's Kioxia Holdings have been abandoned.

Expects a better second half of the year 

SK Hynix recorded its steepest quarterly operating loss in ten years for the first quarter of 2023 but said the global memory chip market should start to recover in the second half of the year.

Sluggish global chip demand

Beancounters at Yonhap Infomax have added up some numbers and divided them by their shoe size and decided that major South Korean chip manufacturing firms won’t be earning much in the first quarter 2023.

Getting concerned about US protectionism

 South Korea has passed legislation giving tax breaks to its semiconductor companies in a bill being labelled as the "Korean Chips Act."

Low Power Double Data Rate 5 Turbo

SK Hynix has shipped off what it is calling the world’s fastest mobile DRAM to prospective customers to have a play with.

Intelligent RAM

SK Hynix announced that it would demonstrate working GDDR6-AiM memory with computing capabilities at CES next month.

8Gbps or roughly 8000MT/s

SK hynix claims to be building the world's fastest server DDR5 memory modules which will be capable of 8Gbps or roughly 8000MT/s.

Mega SSDs on the way 

SK hynix has developed a new 4D NAND flash which will bring in their wake new mega SSDs.