How Once-Struggling SK Hynix Became a Trillion-Dollar Company
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SK Hynix’s rise from near-failure to trillion-dollar valuation is a reminder that memory and HBM are now core AI leverage points, not commodity components. If your AI roadmap assumes 'GPU scarcity' is the only bottleneck, add memory supply, packaging, and vendor concentration to your risk register.
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