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SK hynix dethrones Samsung as world’s top DRAM maker
For the first time in more than three decades, Samsung Electronics has been unseated as the world’s top DRAM maker, with SK hynix seizing the crown on the strength of booming demand for AI memory chips and an exclusive supply deal with Nvidia.
For the first time in more than three decades, Samsung Electronics has been unseated as the world’s top DRAM maker, with SK hynix seizing the crown on the strength of booming demand for AI memory chips and an exclusive supply deal with Nvidia. Samsung Electronics’ global DRAM market share fell by 8.8 percentage points over the past six months — its sharpest decline since the company began disclosing the figure in 1999. Since first delivering HBM3E to Nvidia in March 2024, SK hynix has maintained its position as the chipmaker’s top supplier, with HBM accounting for 54 percent of its DRAM operating profit in the first quarter this year, according to Counterpoint Research.
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