SK hynix seeks to redefine AI memory technology, solidify HBM leadership at CES 2025
SK Group's exhibition booth at CES 2025 at the Las Vegas Convention Center / Courtesy of SK Group,
With the recent boom in artificial intelligence, Korean chip giant SK hynix Inc. has emerged as one of the most influential players in the global semiconductor industry, especially in the high bandwidth memory (HBM) chip sector.
Since developing the first HBM chips in 2013, known for their vertical interconnection of multiple DRAM chips, SK hynix has far outpaced its rivals, including Samsung Electronics Co., in producing fifth-generation HBM3E products.
SK hynix's confidence as a market leader in the HBM sector is on full display at CES 2025, one of the world's largest tech shows that will kick off Tuesday in Las Vegas.
At its joint exhibition booth with other SK Group affiliates, including SK Telecom Co., under the theme "Innovative AI, Sustainable Tomorrow," SK hynix highlights its lineup of world-class AI memory chips, such as HBM and enterprise solid-state drives (eSSDs).
Notable products include the D5-P5335, a 122-terabyte chip developed by its U.S. subsidiary Solidigm in November 2024, which is the world's highest-capacity eSSD, along with LPCAMM2 and ZUFS 4.0 on-device AI memory chips.
SK hynix also showcases cutting-edge technologies like its Compute Express Link (CXL), a next-generation interface, and processing-in-memory (PIM), an advanced AI accelerator.
The centerpiece of the exhibit is a sample of its 16-layer HBM3E chip, the most advanced HBM technology to date, officially introduced in November 2024.
This marks the first time the fingernail-sized chip has been displayed to the public outside Korea.
This comprehensive lineup underscores SK hynix's ambition to position itself as a "full-stack AI memory provider," offering a broad array of AI-centric memory products and technologies.
At the same time, SK hynix's memory chips are essential for AI data centers, which require advanced computational power, high-speed storage and low-latency networking to train and operate AI models efficiently.
"Our capabilities in AI data centers are a solid foundation for further development of SK hynix and the Korean memory industry as a whole," Park Myoung-soo, vice president of SK hynix for U.S. and European sales, told reporters during a press event at the Las Vegas Convention Center on Monday.
"We are confident that SK hynix will continue to contribute to the Korean semiconductor business and global AI development in the coming years." (Yonhap)