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Kwak Noh-Jung

Kwak Noh-Jung

Chief Executive, SK Hynix

Appears in 4 stories

Notable Quotes

"The U.S. market, where global big tech is listed, will allow large institutional investors to properly reassess corporate value." — Kwak Noh-jung

"AI demand is no longer an unexpected tailwind but has become a constant, while competitive intensity has reached unprecedented levels." — 2026 New Year's address

We need to proactively respond to accelerating AI-driven demand for high-bandwidth memory chips.

Stories

SK Hynix debuts on Nasdaq in largest US listing by a foreign company

Money Moves

Led the company's US listing

SK Hynix rang the Nasdaq opening bell on July 10 and raised about $26.5 billion. No foreign company has ever raised more in a US share sale.

Updated 5 days ago

SK hynix ships first 12-layer HBM4E samples for AI systems

New Capabilities

Leading SK hynix through the HBM4 ramp and HBM4E qualification

Modern AI chips can crunch numbers faster than memory can feed them data. On June 18, 2026, SK hynix said it shipped samples of HBM4E, a stacked memory chip built to narrow that gap, to major customers.

Updated Jun 18

AI memory chip boom reshapes South Korea's stock market

Money Moves

Leading company through record-breaking performance

South Korea's benchmark KOSPI stock index crossed 6,000 points for the first time on February 25, 2026. It completed its climb from 5,000 to 6,000 in just 34 trading days, the fastest thousand-point advance in the index's history.

Updated May 29

The packaging pivot: why AI's real bottleneck isn't chips—it's putting them together

Built World

Leading company through HBM expansion

For decades, chip packaging was the unglamorous final step—stacking and connecting silicon dies after the real engineering was done. Now it's the constraint holding back AI.

Updated May 20