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SK Hynix Evacuates Thousands Of Workers At Chip Plant After Fire, Toxic Gas Leak
SK Hynix Evacuates Thousands Of Workers At Chip Plant After Fire, Toxic Gas Leak
One week, unions are threatening labor action at memory giant Samsung. The next, SK Hynix suffers an industrial accident. Together, the events highlight just how fragile the global memory supply chain has become at a time when AI data center buildouts have already pushed memory chip supply into extraordinarily tight territory.
South Korea's main national wire service, Yonhap News Agency, reports that SK Hynix, the world's second-largest DRAM producer, evacuated about 3,600 workers from its Cheongju semiconductor...
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Production is soaring (yay!!) and is forecast to remain strong...
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