
SK Hynix Debut Is a Bet That AI Breaks Boom-and-Bust Chip Cycle
South Korean memory chipmaker SK Hynix Inc. just pulled off the largest public listing by a foreign company in US market history. Shares soared 13% on their first day of trading.
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South Korean memory chipmaker SK Hynix Inc. just pulled off the largest public listing by a foreign company in US market history. Shares soared 13% on their first day of trading.

SK Hynix CEO Kwak Noh-Jung. | Image: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images As the AI boom boosts demand for RAM, SK Hynix - one of the world's biggest suppliers of memory chips - launched on Wall Street Friday. The South Korean chipmaker opened at $170 per share and raised $26.5 billion, surpassing Alibaba's record as the largest debut of a foreign company, according to reports from The Associated Press and CNN. After reaching a $1 trillion valuation in May, SK Hynix briefly overtook Samsung as South Korea's most valuable company. SK Hynix is one of three major companies benefitting from a surge in demand for DRAM and high-bandwidth memory (HBM). These components have become essential for the widespread buildout o … Read the full story at The Verge.