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Native name | 에스케이하이닉스 주식회사 |
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Type | Public |
KRX: 000660 | |
Industry | Semiconductor |
Founded | 15 October 1949 26 February 1983 2012 as SK hynix as Hyundai Electric Industry 2001 as Hynix Semiconductors | as Gukdo construction
Headquarters | Icheon, South Korea |
Key people | Seok-hee Lee (CEO) |
Products | DRAM, NAND flash |
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Number of employees | Korea: 22,254 (2016)[1] |
Parent | SK Group |
Website | www |
SK hynix Inc. is a South Korean supplier of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips and flash memory chips. Hynix is the world's second-largest memory chipmaker (after Samsung Electronics)[2] and the world's third-largest semiconductor company.[3] Founded as Hyundai Electronic Industrial Co., Ltd. in 1983[4] and known as Hyundai Electronics, the company has manufacturing sites in Korea, the United States, mainland China[5] and Taiwan. In 2012, when SK Telecom became its major shareholder, Hynix merged with SK Group[4] (the third largest conglomerate in South Korea).
The company's major customers include Microsoft, Apple,[6] Asus, Dell, MSI, HP Inc., and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (formerly Hewlett-Packard).[2] Other products that use Hynix memory include DVD players, cellular phones, set-top boxes, personal digital assistants, networking equipment, and hard disk drives.[7]
Hynix produces a variety of semiconductor memories, including: