{"id":19928,"date":"2026-05-17T15:17:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T15:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/19928\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T15:17:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T15:17:30","slug":"ai-boom-puts-sk-hynix-on-the-cusp-of-1-trillion-market-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/19928\/","title":{"rendered":"AI boom puts SK Hynix on the cusp of $1 trillion market value"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

SK Hynix shares have risen more than 200% this year, after rising an eye-watering \u200c274% in 2025, \u2060driven \u2060by 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 one trillion-dollar company.<\/p>\n

“The market is running on FOMO sentiments, especially on AI-related names in Japan and Korea,” said Fabien Yip, market analyst at IG in \u2060Sydney. <\/p>\n

Samsung became \u200cKorea’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 \u2060and their record earnings have put the spotlight on their critical role in the global AI supply chain<\/a>. <\/p>\n

South Korea’s benchmark KOSPI index<\/a> has 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 \u200chas been the best-performing major stock market in the world. <\/p>\n

SK Hynix, worth less than $100 billion 16 months ago, is now closing in on the market values of \u2060retail giant Walmart and Berkshire Hathaway, the investment vehicle of the legendary investor Warren Buffett.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, SK Hynix shares edged down 0.48% while Samsung rose more 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. SK Hynix’s market cap was roughly at $948 billion, based on Wednesday’s price and exchange rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SK Hynix is on the verge of topping a $1 trillion market value, just weeks after Samsung Electronics…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[14149,3888,2588,14152,14150,3511,276,241,275,14151],"class_list":["post-19928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sk-hynix","tag-1-trillion-market-value","tag-ai-boom","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-global-ai-supply-chain","tag-high-bandwidth-memory-chips","tag-kospi-index","tag-samsung-electronics","tag-sk","tag-sk-hynix","tag-south-korea-chipmakers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19928","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=19928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}