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SK Hynix pledges 1,100 trillion won in semiconductor investment over the long haul

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0800

1,100 trillion won. Roughly $780 billion at current exchange rates. That’s the price tag SK Hynix put on its semiconductor manufacturing plans Monday, and the real news is how fast it wants to spend it. The company accelerated key projects by more than a decade.

Apple Raises Mac and iPad Prices to Tackle Memory Shortage Driven by AI Expansion

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:43:00 +0800

Apple announced a broad price increase across its Mac and iPad product lines tonight, attributing the move to soaring memory chip and storage costs triggered by the rapid expansion of AI data centers.

Lenovo Warns DRAM Prices May Never Return to Pre-Surge Levels, Even with Massive Capacity Expansion

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:12:00 +0800

At the ISC 2026 conference in Hamburg, Lenovo delivered a sobering forecast for anyone hoping memory prices will eventually crater: they probably won’t. Even if the industry’s largest manufacturers embark on aggressive capacity expansion over the next decade, DRAM and NAND flash pricing is unlikely to revisit the lows seen just a year ago, the company told attendees.

SK Hynix Shifts Production Focus to General-Purpose DRAM as HBM Dominance Secured

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 01:48:00 +0800

SK Hynix has begun scaling back its expansion of sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM4) production, redirecting capacity and resources toward general-purpose DRAM — a segment where surging demand and constrained supply have flipped the profitability equation in its favor, according to a report from Korean outlet Chosun.biz.