{"id":1027529,"date":"2026-08-08T11:13:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027529"},"modified":"2026-08-08T11:13:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:43:30","slug":"sk-hynix-commits-38-billion-to-two-new-chip-fabs-as-ai-memory-demand-refuses-to-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/08\/sk-hynix-commits-38-billion-to-two-new-chip-fabs-as-ai-memory-demand-refuses-to-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"SK Hynix commits $38 billion to two new chip fabs as AI memory demand refuses to cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SK Hynix will spend 54 trillion Korean won, roughly $38.1 billion, on two new memory chip plants in South Korea, a bet that the AI data centre buildout still has years of runway left. The company&#8217;s board approved the plan on Friday, splitting the money between a fabrication plant in Yongin, south of Seoul, and a second facility in Cheongju in the centre of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Neither one will produce a chip this decade&#8217;s midpoint. The Cheongju fab breaks ground in February 2027 and opens its first cleanroom in December 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SK Hynix will spend 54 trillion Korean won, roughly $38.1 billion, on two new memory chip plants in South Korea, a bet that the AI data centre buildout still has years of runway left. The company&#8217;s board approved the plan on Friday, splitting the money between a fabrication plant in Yongin, south of Seoul, and a second facility in Cheongju in the centre of the country. Neither one will produce a chip this decade&#8217;s midpoint. The Cheongju fab breaks ground in February 2027 and opens its first cleanroom in December 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027530,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027529\/revisions\/1027530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}