{"id":483711,"date":"2026-05-14T04:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/483711\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T04:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:22:11","slug":"ai-boom-puts-sk-hynix-on-the-cusp-1-trillion-market-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/483711\/","title":{"rendered":"AI boom puts SK Hynix on the cusp $1 trillion market value"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SEOUL, May 14 (Reuters) – SK Hynix is on the verge of topping a $1 trillion market value, just weeks after Samsung Electronics crossed the milestone, \u200cas strong demand for artificial intelligence<\/a> places South Korea at the heart \u200cof Asia’s AI boom.<\/p>\n

SK Hynix shares have risen more than 200% this year, after rising an eye-watering \u200b274% in 2025, driven by AI-related demand for both conventional memory chips and high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips used in AI servers.<\/p>\n

If SK Hynix joins Samsung above the trillion-dollar threshold, South Korea would become the first country outside the United States to have more than \u200cone trillion-dollar company.<\/p>\n

“The market is \u2060running on FOMO sentiments, especially on AI-related names in Japan and Korea,” said Fabien Yip, market analyst at IG in Sydney.<\/p>\n

Samsung became \u2060Korea’s first trillion-dollar company earlier this month, although Taiwan’s TSMC remains Asia’s biggest company by market value at over $1.83 trillion.<\/p>\n

The three chipmakers and their record earnings have put the \u200bspotlight on \u200btheir critical role in the global AI \u200bsupply chain.<\/p>\n

South Korea’s benchmark KOSPI index \u200chas climbed in near-vertical fashion, hitting record highs as foreign investors both big and small have poured into chipmakers.<\/p>\n

The index is up more than 86% this year, after soaring 75% in 2025 in its strongest annual performance since 1999. Since the start of 2025, the KOSPI has been the best-performing major stock market in the world.<\/p>\n

SK \u200cHynix, worth less than $100 billion 16 months \u200bago, is now closing in on the market values \u200bof retail giant Walmart and \u200bBerkshire Hathaway, the investment vehicle of the legendary investor Warren Buffett<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On \u200cThursday, SK Hynix shares edged down 0.48% \u200bwhile Samsung rose \u200bmore than 3% to a record high, in a broader market that was up 0.9% – not far from the record high it reached earlier this week. \u200bSK Hynix’s market cap \u200cwas roughly at $948 billion, based on Wednesday’s price and exchange rate.<\/p>\n

(Reporting by \u200bHeekyong Yang and Jihoon Lee in Seoul, Ankur Banerjee and Gregor Stuart \u200bHunter in Singapore; Editing by Himani Sarkar)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEOUL, May 14 (Reuters) – SK Hynix is on the verge of topping a $1 trillion market value,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,18,211606,19,17,109070,30725,80704,2428,1402,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-483711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-heart-of-asia","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-market-value","16":"tag-samsung-electronics","17":"tag-sk-hynix","18":"tag-south-korea","19":"tag-stock-market","20":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116571022710418742","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}