The SK Hynix Inc. logo is displayed on a glass door at the company's office in Seoul, South Korea, on Monday, Jan. 27, 2014. SK Hynix aims to select a U.S. site for its advanced chip packaging plant and break ground there around the first quarter of next year.
South Korea's SK Hynix on Thursday posted record operating profit and revenue in the second quarter on sustained demand for its high bandwidth memory technology used in generative AI chipsets.
Here are SK Hynix's second-quarter results compared with LSEG SmartEstimates, which are weighted toward forecasts from analysts who are more consistently accurate:
Revenue: 22.23 trillion won ($16.17 billion) vs. 20.56 trillion won
22.23 trillion won ($16.17 billion) vs. 20.56 trillion won Operating profit: 9.21 trillion won vs. 9 trillion won
Revenue rose about 35% in the June quarter compared with the same period a year earlier, while operating profit rose nearly 69%, year on year.
On a quarter-on-quarter basis, revenue rose 26%, while operating profit jumped 24%.
The company said in a statement that it enjoyed strong demand and favorable pricing conditions in the first half of the year. SK Hynix added that there was a low likelihood of sharp demand corrections for the rest of 2025, due to stable customer inventory levels and expected demand from new product launches.
SK Hynix is a leading supplier of dynamic random access memory — a type of semiconductor memory commonly found in PCs, workstations and servers that is used to store data and program code.
Much of the company's recent success can be credited to its business in high bandwidth memory, or HBM — a type of DRAM used in artificial intelligence servers.
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