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The offering was led by Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan, with nine additional firms rounding out a 13-bank syndicate. Anchor demand came from heavyweight institutions including Baillie Gifford, Coatue Management, and Situational Awareness Partners, which together signaled interest in as much as $7 billion of stock, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Financial Times.
SK hynix is the world's leading maker of high-bandwidth memory (HBM), the vertically stacked DRAM that has become critical infrastructure for AI accelerators. The company has said it will steer the proceeds toward boosting its AI-memory manufacturing capacity. Confirmed build-outs include the first-phase fab at the massive Yongin semiconductor cluster , a new P&T7 advanced-packaging line in Cheongju, and EUV lithography equipment slated for delivery by the end of next year. Separately, SK hynix is constructing its first U.S. production site , a $4 billion advanced-packaging plant in West Lafayette, Indiana, targeted for completion around 2028. The facility is eligible for up to $458 million in CHIPS Act grants and up to $570 million in federal loans.
SK hynix is seeing sensational growth thanks to the ongoing AI boom. The company is reportedly on track to post over 200 trillion won ($133 billion) in operating profit this year, a record-breaking figure that would see SK hynix employees earn around $400,000 each in bonuses. The company’s Seoul-listed stock is up roughly 220% year-to-date and has climbed more than sixfold over the past year.
In late June, SK hynix briefly surpassed Samsung as South Korea's most valuable company , closing at around 2,080 trillion won (about $1.35 trillion), a meteoric rise for a company that almost declared bankruptcy in 2001 and, more recently, recorded an annual operating loss of 7.73 trillion won in 2023. That rise doesn't seem like it will be slowing down any time soon. SK hynix has said its entire 2026 output of HBM, DRAM, and NAND is already sold out, with the crunch expected to extend into 2027 .
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