SK hynix Ventures held a launch event where its employees explored technologies and collaboration opportunities with global partners. The unit works to identify promising technologies and create new business opportunities, finding paths for future growth.
SK hynix Ventures outlines its path for identifying promising technologies and creating new business opportunities. In September, the company held SK hynix Ventures Day in Silicon Valley.
Through a decade of venture investing, SK hynix has evolved its corporate VC model from "tech sensing" to "path finding," turning internal R&D, mass production and customer resources into assets startups can leverage.
In part three of its AI Infrastructure Insight series, SK hynix notes that power supply and thermal management have become core requirements that AI data centers must consider from the earliest design stages.
NAND suppliers are shifting capacity toward enterprise SSDs on recovering demand, but eSSD lead times still stretch to 16 weeks, far above the 8 weeks of a balanced market, and overall supply remains insufficient. Other highlights this week include reports that SK hynix is in early talks with Intel about producing memory chips in the US, and Huawei moving its Ascend 960DT up three quarters to early 2027 to catch up with NVIDIA.
On September 8, SK hynix held its 2026 Future Forum at the SUPEX Center on its Icheon campus, under the theme "The Golden Age of the AI Era: The Moment for AI Memory Solution Creators to Change the World," discussing AX (AI transformation) trends and the direction of memory technology.