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Bloomberg Tech covers SK Hynix’s landmark US ADR listing, set to become the largest first-time US share sale by a foreign company — surpassing Alibaba’s record. Pricing at $149 per ADS (approximately a 3% premium to Korean shares), the deal was over seven times oversubscribed, representing more than $160 billion in nominal demand. SK Hynix plans to raise between $26 and $28 billion, earmarked primarily for boosting high bandwidth memory (HBM) manufacturing capacity to meet surging AI demand.
Bloomberg’s Ian King traces SK Hynix’s remarkable transformation: acquired by SK Group in 2012 when it was close to being purchased by Micron, the company has grown to over $200 billion in annual revenue with 80% gross margins. Its dominance in HBM — the specialized memory chips that power AI accelerators from Nvidia and others — has made it a central player in the AI supply chain alongside Samsung and Micron.
The segment also covers Micron’s announcement of a $250 billion US manufacturing investment (up $50 billion from prior guidance), framing both moves as part of a broader reshoring of semiconductor capacity driven by AI compute demand. Analysts note that while near-term demand is unambiguously strong with no oversupply scenario expected in the next two years, the memory industry’s historical inability to manage long-term supply cycles remains a key investor risk to watch.
📺 Source: Bloomberg Tech · Published July 09, 2026
🏷️ Format: News Analysis
