SK Hynix to Buy $8 Billion of ASML EUV Equipment
By Kwanwoo Jun
SK Hynix plans to purchase around $8 billion of extreme ultraviolet equipment from ASML, ramping up its advanced-chip production capability in response to surging demand fueled by artificial intelligence.
The South Korean chip maker's board on Tuesday decided to buy 6.913 billion euros' worth of EUV scanner equipment--the most advanced lithography machine used to print extremely tiny circuit patterns on silicon wafers--from the Dutch company, according to its regulatory filing in Seoul.
Securing new EUV equipment is aimed at preparing for mass production using next-generation processes, it said.
SK Hynix expects the purchase, valued at 11.950 trillion won--equivalent to $8.04 billion--to be completed by the end of 2027.
The move comes as SK Hynix, a major supplier of high-bandwidth-memory products for AI chip giant Nvidia, seeks to maintain its leadership in the increasingly competitive HBM market amid brisk AI-driven demand.
SK Hynix has led the HBM market by developing and supplying HBM3 and HBM3E products to Nvidia ahead of rivals such as Samsung Electronics and Micron Technology.
Samsung in February said it became the world's first to mass produce and ship more advanced HBM4 products. Last week, it said it will invest more than $70 billion to compete for leadership in AI chip manufacturing.
Write to Kwanwoo Jun at kwanwoo.jun@wsj.com
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March 24, 2026 05:25 ET (09:25 GMT)
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