{"id":405034,"date":"2026-04-22T11:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/405034\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:40:12","slug":"sk-hynix-to-invest-about-13-billion-in-a-new-south-korea-plant-to-meet-ai-memory-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/405034\/","title":{"rendered":"SK Hynix to invest about $13 billion in a new South Korea plant to meet AI memory demand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">SEOUL, April 22 (Reuters) &#8211; SK Hynix said on Wednesday it plans \u200cto invest 19 trillion won ($12.85 \u200cbillion) in a new manufacturing plant in \u200bSouth Korea for advanced packaging, to meet rising global demand for AI memory, with construction starting this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The \u200cNvidia supplier, \u2060one of the world&#8217;s largest memory chipmakers, has been expanding \u2060production capacity to keep up with strong demand for <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:artificial intelligence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;artificial intelligence&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a> \u200bdata centres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The \u200bSouth Korean \u200bchipmaker said in \u200ca statement that the new fab plant will be dedicated to advanced packaging, a process essential for manufacturing AI memory products such as high-bandwidth \u200cmemory (HBM) chips.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Earlier this \u200byear, SK Hynix said \u200bit has \u200baccelerated capacity expansion, including \u200cbringing forward the opening \u200bof a \u200bnew memory chip plant in South Korea, as it seeks to \u200bmeet \u200csurging demand. ($1 = 1,478.1000 won)<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting by Heekyong \u200bYang, Hyunjoo Jin, Heejin KimEditing \u200bby Ed Davies)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEOUL, April 22 (Reuters) &#8211; SK Hynix said on Wednesday it plans \u200cto invest 19 trillion won ($12.85&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,22393,85,46,191570,71979,11471,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-405034","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-global-demand","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-manufacturing-plant","15":"tag-sk-hynix","16":"tag-south-korea","17":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}