{"id":67692,"date":"2026-05-12T12:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/67692\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T12:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:17:14","slug":"sk-hynix-ceo-to-meet-gates-nadella-to-strengthen-ai-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/67692\/","title":{"rendered":"SK hynix CEO to Meet Gates, Nadella to Strengthen AI Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"null - Seoul Economic Daily Finance News from South Korea\" title=\"SK hynix CEO to Meet Gates, Nadella to Strengthen AI Alliance\" 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\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/news-p.v1.20260512.ddd5f0906d484e5390065b9685e85da7_P2.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Kwak Noh-jung, CEO of SK hynix (000660.KS), will attend a high-level Microsoft event and meet with Microsoft founder Bill Gates and CEO Satya Nadella. Through the gathering, Kwak aims to deepen cooperation with Microsoft, a major customer in the artificial intelligence (AI) memory business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">According to industry sources on Wednesday, Kwak will attend the &#8220;MS CEO Summit 2026,&#8221; held the same day (local time) at Microsoft&#8217;s headquarters in Redmond, Washington. The MS CEO Summit is a closed-door event where Microsoft invites CEOs and experts from major global companies to share technology trends and business strategies, and to discuss ways to strengthen cooperation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Kwak is scheduled to meet top Microsoft figures including Gates and Nadella in succession. There is also a possibility that Kwak will be invited to a dinner hosted by Gates at his residence. The meeting is expected to advance cooperation between the two companies, such as SK hynix expanding its memory supply to Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Microsoft sources DRAM and NAND flash memory from SK hynix for operating its flagship large-scale data centers and cloud services. SK hynix&#8217;s high-bandwidth memory (HBM) is also built into &#8220;Maia 200,&#8221; Microsoft&#8217;s in-house AI chip (ASIC) developed to compete with Nvidia&#8217;s graphics processing units (GPUs).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">SK hynix, for its part, is actively pursuing long-term agreements (LTAs) of three to five years with Big Tech customers including Microsoft, stepping up its response in the memory market share competition with Samsung Electronics and Micron.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics have previously sent CEO-level representatives to the MS CEO Summit but will not attend this year. Hong Bum-shik, CEO of LG Uplus, is also known to be attending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kwak Noh-jung, CEO of SK hynix (000660.KS), will attend a high-level Microsoft event and meet with Microsoft founder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[23517,651,39537,39535,862,39536,585,1041],"class_list":{"0":"post-67692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bill-gates","8":"tag-ai-memory","9":"tag-bill-gates","10":"tag-hbm","11":"tag-kwak-noh-jung","12":"tag-microsoft","13":"tag-ms-ceo-summit","14":"tag-satya-nadella","15":"tag-sk-hynix"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116561566162517036","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}