SK Hynix

SK hynix Inc.

Type	Public
Traded as	KRX: 000660
Industry	Semiconductor
Founded	1983; 34 years ago (1983) as Hyundai Electric Industry 2001 as Hynix Semiconductors 2012 as SK Hynix
Headquarters	Icheon, South Korea
Key people	Sungwook Park (CEO)
Products	DRAM, NAND Flash
Revenue	US$ 13.3 billion (2013)
Net income	US$ 3.547 billion (2014)
Number of employees	17,130
Website	www.skhynix.com

1983; 34 years ago (1983)
as Hyundai Electric Industry 2001 as Hynix Semiconductors

SK hynix Inc. (KRX: 000660) is a South Korean memory semiconductor supplier of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips and flash memory chips. Hynix is the world's second-largest memory chipmaker (after Samsung Electronics) and the world's fifth-largest semiconductor company. Founded as Hyundai Electronic Industrial Co., Ltd. in 1983 and known as Hyundai Electronics, the company has manufacturing sites in Korea, the US, China and Taiwan. In 2012, when SK Telecom became its major shareholder, Hynix merged to SK Group (the third largest conglomerate in South Korea). The company's shares are traded on the , and the Global Depository shares are listed on the .

Hynix memory is used by Apple in some of their iMac, MacBook and MacBook Pro computers. Apple's latest A9 chipset is onboard together with a SK Hynix RAM module believed to be "likely the same 2 GB LPDDR4 mobile DRAM found in the iPhone 6s". Hynix memory is also used by Asus in their Google-branded Nexus 7 tablet, an OEM provider for IBM System x servers, and is used in PC desktops as well as the ASUS Eee PC. Dell and Hewlett-Packard have also used Hynix memory as OEM equipment. Other products that use Hynix memory include DVD players, cellular phones, set-top boxes, personal digital assistants, networking equipment, and hard disk drives.