{"id":1745,"date":"2025-10-02T01:59:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T01:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/sk-hynix-shares-hit-multidecade-highs-samsung-also-surges-as-chipmakers-partner-with-openai\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T01:59:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T01:59:23","slug":"sk-hynix-shares-hit-multidecade-highs-samsung-also-surges-as-chipmakers-partner-with-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finzexpert.com\/blog\/sk-hynix-shares-hit-multidecade-highs-samsung-also-surges-as-chipmakers-partner-with-openai\/","title":{"rendered":"SK Hynix shares hit multidecade highs, Samsung also surges as chipmakers partner with OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"RegularArticle-ArticleBody-5\" data-module=\"ArticleBody\" data-test=\"articleBody-2\" data-analytics=\"RegularArticle-articleBody-5-2\"><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\" style=\"top:0;left:0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"InlineImage-imageEmbed\" id=\"ArticleBody-InlineImage-108179470\" data-test=\"InlineImage\">\n<div class=\"InlineImage-wrapper\">\n<div>\n<p>Headquarters of Samsung in Mountain View, California, on October 28, 2018. <\/p>\n<p>Smith Collection\/gado | Archive Photos | Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p>Shares of South Korean chip heavyweights Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix surged Thursday, a day after the two companies partnered with artificial-intelligence major OpenAI as part of the U.S. firm&#8217;s Stargate initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung shares hit their highest since January 2021, rising over 4%, while SK Hynix stock surged more than 9% \u2014 highest since 2000.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI said in a statement that this partnership will &#8220;focus on increasing the supply of advanced memory chips essential for next-generation AI and expanding data center capacity in Korea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ChatGPT-maker said the two South Korean firms plan to scale up production of advanced memory chips, which are critical to power its AI models.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in Seoul, and the top leaders at Samsung and SK Hynix.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI has also signed a series of agreements to explore developing next-generation AI data centers in South Korea, including with the Korean Ministry of Science and ICT, telecommunications operator SK Telecom, as well as with Samsung subsidiaries.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, SK Hynix announced that it was ready to mass-produce its next-generation high-bandwidth memory chips, cementing its leading position in the AI value chain. HBM is a type of memory that is used in chipsets for artificial-intelligence computing, including in chips from\u00a0global AI giant Nvidia \u2014 a major client of SK Hynix.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-test=\"WildCardEmbed\">\n<div class=\"WildcardEmbed-wrapper\">\n<style><![CDATA[\n\tdiv {\n\t\tbox-sizing: border-box;\n\t}\n\t.noselect {\n\t  -webkit-touch-callout: none; \/* iOS Safari *\/\n\t\t-webkit-user-select: none; \/* Safari *\/\n\t\t -khtml-user-select: none; \/* Konqueror HTML *\/\n\t\t   -moz-user-select: none; \/* Old versions of Firefox *\/\n\t\t\t-ms-user-select: none; \/* Internet Explorer\/Edge *\/\n\t\t\t\tuser-select: none; \/* Non-prefixed version, currently\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  supported by Chrome, Edge, Opera and Firefox *\/\n\t}\n\t\n\t.DO-widget-wrapper {\n\t\twidth: 100%; \n\t\tmax-width: 620px;\n\t\tbackground-color: #fff;\n\t}\n\t\n\t.DO-logo-row {\n\t\tmargin-bottom: 10px;\n\t\t\n\t}\n\t\n\t.DO-body {\n\t\tborder-top: 2px #289dcf solid;\n\t\tborder-bottom: 2px #289dcf solid;\n\t\tpadding: 12px 0 12px 0;\n\t\tmargin-bottom: 20px;\n\t\t\n\t}\n\t\n\t.DO-bodycopy .DO-button {\n\t\tfont-family: Proxima Nova,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;\n\t}\n\t\n\t.DO-bodycopy {color: #424858; font-size: 18px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 12px;}\n\t\n\t.DO-button {\n\t\tcolor: #fff; \n\t\tfont-size: 16px;\n\t\tfont-weight: 600;\n\t\twidth: 120px;\t\n\t\theight: 30px;\n\t\tbackground-color: #0071bc;\n\t\tborder-radius: 6px;\n\t\ttext-transform: uppercase;\n\t\tpadding: 4px;\n\t\ttext-align: center;\t\n\t\tcursor: pointer;\n\t\tmargin-bottom: 4px;\n\t\ttext-decoration: none !important;\n\t}\n\t\n\t.DO-button:hover {\n\t\tbackground-color: #0a94e0;\n\t\ttext-decoration: none !important;\n\t}\n\t\n\t@media \n\t\t\t\n\n]]><\/style>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p>HBM4 chips are expected to be the main AI memory chip needed for Nvidia&#8217;s next-generation Rubin architecture \u2014 a more powerful AI chip for global data centers.<\/p>\n<p>SK Hynix has been a main chip supplier to Nvidia, while rival Samsung has\u00a0reportedly\u00a0been working to get its HBM4 chips certified by Nvidia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Samsung has traditionally been the market leader in memory, but its position has been threatened by SK Hynix that has taken a lead in the HBM space. A\u00a0report\u00a0from Counterpoint Research in July found that SK Hynix had caught up with Samsung&#8217;s memory revenues in the second quarter, with both now vying for the top position in the global memory market.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Samsung&#8217;s second-quarter earnings missed expectations, as profits from its chip business declined almost 94% year on year, although its Chief Financial Officer Soon-cheol Park\u00a0said that the company expects a rebound in the second half of the year.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 CNBC&#8217;s Dylan Butts contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Headquarters of Samsung in Mountain View, California, on October 28, 2018. Smith Collection\/gado | Archive Photos | Getty Images Shares of South Korean chip heavyweights Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix surged Thursday, a day after the two companies partnered with artificial-intelligence major OpenAI as part of the U.S. firm&#8217;s Stargate initiative. 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