Big Tech demanding deals that smooth out memory prices, says SK Hynix
Operating profit grew by an even larger number: 557 percent year-over-year to ₩60.5 trillion ($41.6 billion). The memory-maker even achieved the unusual feat of delivering more net income than revenue, thanks to asset sales. REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); But the company predicted slow growth in Q3, with NAND shipments rising by a low single-digit percentage and about ten percent more DRAM to leave SK Hynix’s factories.
- ▪Operating profit grew by an even larger number: 557 percent year-over-year to ₩60.5 trillion ($41.6 billion).
- ▪The memory-maker even achieved the unusual feat of delivering more net income than revenue, thanks to asset sales.
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