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SK Hynix

SK hynix Inc. (Korean: 에스케이하이닉스 주식회사) is a South Korean supplier of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips and flash memory chips. Hynix is the world's second-largest memory chipmaker (after Samsung Electronics)[2] and the world's sixth-largest semiconductor company.[3] Founded as Hyundai Electronic Industrial Co., Ltd. in 1983[4] and known as Hyundai Electronics, the company has manufacturing sites in Korea, the United States, mainland China[5] and Taiwan. In 2012, when SK Telecom became its major shareholder, Hynix merged with SK Group[4] (the third largest conglomerate in South Korea at the time).

"Hyundai Electronics" and "Hynix" redirect here. For the conglomerate, see Hyundai Group.

Native name

에스케이하이닉스 주식회사

Public

KRX: 000660

Semiconductor

15 October 1949 (1949-10-15) as Gukdo construction

26 February 1983 (1983-02-26) as Hyundai Electric Industry 2001 as Hynix Semiconductors

2012 as SK hynix

Icheon, South Korea

Seok-hee Lee (CEO)

DRAM, NAND flash

Increase US$35.27 billion (2018)

Increase US$18.34 billion (2018)

Increase US$13.67 billion (2018)

Increase US$56.08 billion (2018)

Increase US$41.22 billion (2018)

Korea: 22,254 (2016)[1]

SK Group

www.skhynix.com

The company's major customers include Microsoft, Apple,[6] Asus, Dell, MSI, HP Inc., and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (formerly Hewlett-Packard).[2] Other products that use Hynix memory include DVD players, cellular phones, set-top boxes, personal digital assistants, networking equipment, and hard disk drives.[7]

1949: Founded as Gukdo construction.

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1983: Incorporated and renamed as Hyundai Electronics Industries Co., Ltd.

[4]

1985: Started mass production of 256K DRAM under a licensing agreement with U.S. company .[9]

Vitelic Corporation

1986: The Hyundai-manufactured was sold in discount and toy stores throughout the US. It is one of the earliest PC clones marketed toward consumers instead of business[10]

Blue Chip PC

1993: Took over (US HDD main factory)

Maxtor

1996: Initial public offering on the Korea Stock Exchange

[11]

1999: Merged with LG Semiconductor Co., Ltd (founded in 1979), then a division of .[4][11][12][13]

LG Electronics

2000: Spun off Hyundai Image Quest, Hyundai Autonet and

Hyundai Calibration & Certification Technologies

2001: Changed the company name to Hynix Semiconductor Inc. (from Hyundai Electronics); spun off Hyundai Syscomm, Hyundai CuriTel, and Hyundai Networks; completed spin-off from Hyundai Group[11]

[11]

2002: Sold HYDIS, TFT-LCD Business Unit

2004: Signed System IC Business Transfer Agreement with System Semiconductor

2005: Emerged from Corporate Restructuring Promotion Act ahead of schedule. Fined US$185M for involvement in cartel

DRAM price fixing

2006: Posted record the highest revenues since foundation
Established global manufacturing network with complete construction of Hynix-ST Semiconductor Inc.
Hynix's wholly owned manufacturing subsidiary in China

2007: Appointed Jong-Kap Kim as the new Chairman & CEO

2009: Company put up for sale by its lenders after it defaulted on loans and a subsequent debt-equity swap

2010: Fine of €51.47 million for illegally with eight other memory chip makers.[14]
In January 2010, Hynix Semiconductor Inc was put up for sale in an auction valued at close to $3 billion.[15][16]
On 31 August 2010, HP announced collaboration with Hynix to bring memristor to high volume manufacturing step (targeted for 2013).[17]

fixing prices

2012: , the third-largest conglomerate in South Korea, acquired a 21.05% stake in Hynix.[18]

SK Group

2013: Fab 1 and Fab 2 in China both suffered a massive fire which took the factories offline temporarily.

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2014: SK hynix acquired the firmware division of to make it part of its global R&D network alongside Italy-based Ideaflash S.r.l, Link_A_Media Devices and Violin Memory in the US, and Taiwanese Innostor Technology.[20][21]

Softeq Development FLLC

2020: Hynix announced an agreement to purchase 's NAND business for $9 billion, which closed in 2021.[22] This spinoff created a new company, Solidigm, fully owned by SK Hynix.[23][24]

Intel

2021: The company is involved in an scandal regarding defective DRAM memory.

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Computing memory

Consumer and network memory

Graphics memory

Mobile memory

NAND flash memory

CMOS image sensors

(SSDs)

Solid-state drives

Hynix produces a variety of semiconductor memories, including:

List of semiconductor fabrication plants

Semiconductor industry in South Korea

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Official website

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