{"id":145599,"date":"2026-09-07T06:40:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T06:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/145599\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T06:40:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T06:40:25","slug":"samsung-sk-hynix-eye-us-japan-for-ai-chip-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/145599\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung, SK hynix Eye US, Japan for AI Chip Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t            <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Separator\" title=\"Separator\" class=\"cover-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788763224_85_line.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t            Samsung, SK hynix Eye US, Japan for AI Chip Growth          <\/p>\n<p>  \t&#13;<br \/>\n                    CEO Insights Asia Team | Monday 07 September, 2026&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>\t\t        <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Separator\" title=\"Separator\" class=\"cover-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788763224_85_line.png\" style=\"margin-top: 10px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/55bj5DF 927.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:0px; float:left; height:308px; margin:5px 11px; width:450px\" title=\"Samsung, SK hynix Eye US, Japan for AI Chip Growth\"\/>The United States and Japan are becoming the next important manufacturing hubs for Samsung Electronics and SK hynix, as the companies speed up capacity growth to satisfy rising demand for<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceoinsightsasia.com\/women-leaders\/ai-humans-will-unite-to-become-the-perfect-collaborative-team-of-future-nwid-9438.html\" style=\"font-size: inherit;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> artificial intelligence<\/a> (AI) chips.<\/p>\n<p>Both nations provide benefits, with the U.S. enabling closer access to key clients like Nvidia and Tesla, along with incentives that may aid in lowering investment expenses and could lessen exposure to semiconductor tariffs from the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>Japan boasts a robust ecosystem of suppliers for chip equipment and materials, dependable power and water resources in certain areas, and significant government support for semiconductor investments.<\/p>\n<p>For semiconductor manufacturers, selecting a location involves more than just being close to customers; dependable access to electricity and water, along with government incentives, is becoming crucial as firms invest billions in new fabrication plants.<\/p>\n<p>Firms carefully examine incentives, such as infrastructure and subsidies. They must initially evaluate if water and electricity can be provided readily, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>SK hynix has recently taken a notable interest in Japan as a possible manufacturing hub.<\/p>\n<p>Also Read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceoinsightsasia.com\/industry-insider\/establishing-a-data-lake-in-the-age-of-genai-a-guide--nwid-13982.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Establishing a Data Lake in the Age of GenAI: A Guide<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The nation hosts significant suppliers of semiconductor equipment and materials, including Tokyo Electron. TSMC, the producer of the base die for SK hynix\u2019s high-bandwidth memory 4 (HBM4), has fabs in Kumamoto, while Micron manufactures DRAM in Hiroshima.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese government has provided significant financial assistance to draw in chip investments. It aims to offer up to 1.2 trillion yen ($7.73 billion) in subsidies for TSMC\u2019s initial two Kumamoto fabs and up to 500 billion yen for Micron\u2019s growth in Hiroshima.<\/p>\n<p>Also Read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceoinsightsasia.com\/industry-insider\/leading-the-future-of-tech-hiring-data-ai-and-talent-strategy-nwid-14458.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Leading the Future of Tech Hiring: Data, AI, and Talent Strategy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won expressed an increasing interest in Japan as well. In a recent interview with Japan\u2019s Asahi Shimbun, Chey stated that collaborating with Kioxia on joint production was \u201cone option\u201d and mentioned that the two companies could also work together on research and development, supply-chain sharing, and possibly constructing a factory collaboratively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samsung, SK hynix Eye US, Japan for AI Chip Growth &#13; CEO Insights Asia Team | Monday 07&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[3988,276,1259,241,275],"class_list":["post-145599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sk-hynix","tag-ai-chips","tag-samsung-electronics","tag-semiconductor-manufacturing","tag-sk","tag-sk-hynix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}