{"id":1027549,"date":"2026-08-10T07:30:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T02:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1027549"},"modified":"2026-08-10T07:37:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T02:07:40","slug":"sk-hynix-board-approves-38-billion-investments-for-south-koreas-yongin-cheongju-chip-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/10\/sk-hynix-board-approves-38-billion-investments-for-south-koreas-yongin-cheongju-chip-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"SK Hynix board approves $38 billion investments for South Korea&#8217;s Yongin, Cheongju chip plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea&#8217;s SK Hynix said on Friday that its board had approved about \u200c54.3 trillion won ($38.30 billion) \u2060of \u2060investments through 2031, including 35.2 trillion won for the second phase of construction of its chip fabrication plant in Yongin and 19.1 trillion won for its M17 chip plant in Cheongju. <\/p>\n<p>In June, \u200bSK Hynix said it planned to invest 600 trillion won in the Yongin semiconductor cluster and 100 trillion won to expand its production base in Cheongju, \u200badding at the time that detailed investment plans and \u2060schedules would \u200cbe disclosed after receiving board approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea&#8217;s SK Hynix said on Friday that its board had approved about \u200c54.3 trillion won ($38.30 billion) \u2060of \u2060investments through 2031, including 35.2 trillion won for the second phase of construction of its chip fabrication plant in Yongin and 19.1 trillion won for its M17 chip plant in Cheongju. In June, \u200bSK Hynix said it planned to invest 600 trillion won in the Yongin semiconductor cluster and 100 trillion won to expand its production base in Cheongju, \u200badding at the time that detailed investment plans and \u2060schedules would \u200cbe disclosed after receiving board approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027549","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027572,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027549\/revisions\/1027572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}