South Korean semiconductor firm SK Hynix was until March the sole supplier of high-bandwidth memory chips to Nvidia. Photo: Shutterstock
South Korea’s SK Hynix said on Thursday that its high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips used in artificial intelligence (AI) processors were sold out for this year and almost sold out for 2025, as businesses aggressively expand AI services.
The Nvidia supplier and the world’s second-largest memory chip maker will begin sending samples of its latest HBM chip, called the 12-layer HBM3E, in May and begin mass-producing them in the third quarter.