{"id":39167,"date":"2026-06-02T16:40:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/39167\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T16:40:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:40:23","slug":"sk-chairman-chey-vows-to-double-sk-hynix-capacity-within-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/39167\/","title":{"rendered":"SK Chairman Chey Vows to Double SK hynix Capacity Within Five Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won speaks with Korean reporters at SK hynix's booth during Computex 2026 at the Nangang Exhibition Center in Taipei, Taiwan, on the 2nd (local time). SK hynix - Seoul Economic Daily Finance News from South Korea\" title=\"SK Chairman Chey Vows to Double SK hynix Capacity Within Five Years\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"w-full h-auto rounded-sm\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:contain;object-position:center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/news-p.v1.20260602.7304bd55a4ca4facaeadad16e2326877_P2.png\"\/>SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won speaks with Korean reporters at SK hynix&#8217;s booth during Computex 2026 at the Nangang Exhibition Center in Taipei, Taiwan, on the 2nd (local time). SK hynix<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">SK Group Chairman Tae-won Chey said the company will double SK hynix&#8217;s production capacity within the next five years, outlining his vision to lead a memory chip market facing deepening shortages driven by artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure expansion. Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) unveiled its first prototype of HBM5, the eighth generation of high-bandwidth memory, accelerating its push for a &#8220;technology super-gap.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Meeting reporters Tuesday at SK hynix&#8217;s booth at Computex 2026 at the Nangang Exhibition Center in Taipei, Taiwan, Chairman Chey said, &#8220;A memory shortage is expected through 2030,&#8221; adding, &#8220;We will double our capacity over the next five years.&#8221; Analysts said his remarks align with Nvidia&#8217;s announcement that it will double production capacity for its &#8220;Vera Rubin&#8221; AI accelerator through Taiwan&#8217;s supply chain. Nvidia is SK hynix&#8217;s largest customer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">&#8220;These days, building a new fab takes at least three years, and starting from a greenfield site takes more than five years,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We need to overcome the memory bottleneck, but we have to break through obstacles on a decade-long scale.&#8221; Chey also visited the booths of major Taiwanese companies including Foxconn and Acer, reviewing partnership ties on site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Song Jai-hyuk, president and chief technology officer (CTO) of Samsung Electronics&#8217; semiconductor division, who represented the company at Computex 2026, held a press briefing at the Samsung Display booth and unveiled the eighth-generation HBM prototype for the first time. &#8220;HBM5 features a base die manufactured for the first time in the world using a 2-nanometer (nm, one-billionth of a meter) foundry process, along with a heat path block (HPB) that controls heat generation,&#8221; CTO Song said, signaling that the advancement of HBM technology will also boost Samsung&#8217;s foundry business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Samsung Electronics is leading the technology super-gap in next-generation HBM this year. After becoming the first in the industry to begin HBM4 mass production in February, the company also became the first to ship HBM4E samples last month. &#8220;We are firmly investing in every possible resource,&#8221; CTO Song said, explaining the backdrop of Samsung&#8217;s HBM technology leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won speaks with Korean reporters at SK hynix&#8217;s booth during Computex 2026 at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[5319,21122,6368,19855,9454,276,241,275,20166],"class_list":["post-39167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sk-hynix","tag-ai-semiconductors","tag-computex-2026","tag-hbm4e","tag-hbm5","tag-memory-shortage","tag-samsung-electronics","tag-sk","tag-sk-hynix","tag-tae-won-chey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39167","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=39167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}