SK hynix

A Seoul paper says Samsung's HBM4E passed Nvidia's quality tests, and Samsung says it cannot confirm that

Passing qualification is not a supply contract. Volumes, contract sizes and mass-production timing are all unconfirmed, the paper says itself.

China's CXMT says it will put a denser DRAM cell into server memory before the end of the year

Nobody has commercialised the denser cell at scale. CXMT holds about a tenth of the DRAM market and says it will try first, in servers.

CXMT says its fifth-generation DRAM is in mass production at an 11.95-nanometre half-pitch

The company says the platform yields at least 50 per cent more dies per wafer than its predecessor. It did not disclose yields or monthly output, the two numbers that would settle how close it really is.

SK hynix is in talks with Intel about making memory chips in the US, Reuters reports

The options reportedly include SK hynix leasing part of Intel's delayed Ohio campus or a joint venture with cloud companies. SK hynix says no plans have been finalised, and Intel called the report speculation.

Samsung and SK hynix refuse to prepay five years of power bills to fund the grid for Korea's new chip fabs

The state utility wanted the money to build transmission for new fabs in Yongin and the Honam region. It carries 210.7tn won of debt and now has to find the funding elsewhere.