SK Hynix is ​​looking for a venue in Japan to organize memory joint production

SK Group representatives have been unusually talkative this month. If it were just the CEO of SK hynix Hinting at a return to friendly relations with Japanese manufacturers such as Kioxia, Chairman Chey Tae-won told Bloomberg that the company is considering looking for a piece of land in Japan to establish a joint venture.

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“We are looking for energy and water sources across Japan,” ——The chairman of SK Hynix explained, but refused to comment on possible Japanese partners. We recall that the company recently launched the construction of a factory in Indiana, USA, that will participate in the testing and packaging of HBM4E, and generally does not reject the idea of ​​organizing full-cycle memory production in the United States.

Rival Micron Technology has a DRAM manufacturing plant in western Japan that it acquired from local company Elpida. In Japan, there are memory manufacturers such as Kioxia, which cooperates with Sandisk, as well as large consumers such as Sony and Nintendo, as well as various automobile manufacturers. Given the interest of the Japanese authorities in revitalizing the local semiconductor industry, SK Hynix has the opportunity to partially pay for the construction costs of future Japanese factories through government subsidies. Having a local partner will make it easier to obtain them. “It’s time for South Korea and Japan to form an economic bloc” – Emphasized by Chairman of the Board of Directors of SK Group.