SK hynix Inc. (에스케이하이닉스 주식회사) is a leading South Korean semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in Icheon, Gyeonggi-do. Originally founded in 1983 as part of Hyundai Electronics and later rebranded after integration into the SK Group in 2012, the company specializes in memory semiconductors.
It produces dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), NAND flash memory, multi-chip packages (MCP), solid-state drives (SSD), and high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips essential for AI applications. As one of the "Big Three" memory chip makers alongside Samsung Electronics and Micron Technology, SK hynix holds significant global market share in DRAM and NAND, serving servers, mobile devices, PCs, consumer electronics, and automotive sectors.
With fabrication facilities in South Korea and China, plus R&D centers worldwide, SK hynix drives innovation in advanced memory solutions amid rising demand for AI and high-performance computing. While not a chemical producer, it relies on specialty chemicals like ultrapure phosphoric acid and CMP materials in its manufacturing processes.
Also known as 에스케이하이닉스(주) and Hynix Semiconductor Inc..
chemXplore tracks 3 projects involving SK Hynix, of which 3 are active.
SK Hynix's role on them: Offtaker.
3 new construction.
1 of the active projects carry no start-up date yet.
Contractors, licensors, and offtakers are recorded on all 3 of them For subscribers
Targeting: Nitrogen (2), Argon (1), Hydrogen (1), Krypton (1), Neon (1), Oxygen (1)
First Asian producer certified AS9100D for aerospace-grade xenon and krypton; begins full-scale supply from a 130,000 Nm³/yr plant after KARI-validated performance.
Second-quarter comparable growth accelerated; operating margin, recurring profit and cash flow improved while record investments and the DIG Airgas deal closed.
Two on-site production units will deliver ultra‑pure N2, O2, Ar, H2 and other gases to SK hynix’s first U.S. advanced packaging fab, with commissioning planned end‑2028.
130,000 Nm³/year high‑purity xenon, krypton and neon; refines crude gas from POSCO oxygen plants to localize supply and meet about 52% of domestic semiconductor demand.
Long-term contract to build and operate a nitrogen unit supplying high-purity gases and compressed air to an HBM packaging and testing fab; operations due late 2027.
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