SK Hynix bargains for chip equipment exports to its China facility in return for building a factory in US
9:45 AM PDT · October 15, 2026
SK Hynix appears to be navigating choppy U.S.-China chipmaking waters. The company’s flash memory unit, Solidigm, is seeking U.S. approval to send American chipmaking equipment to its factory in Dalian, China, as a condition to continue building a semiconductor factory in the U.S, Reuters reported, citing anonymous sources.
Solidigm has been reportedly chalking up plans to build a NAND flash memory chip factory in the U.S., and is considering upstate New York as a potential location for the facility.
NAND flash chips are primarily used in solid-state storage drives, which are employed in everything from laptops and smartphones to AI data centers. But the global component shortage thanks to skyrocketing demand for AI data centers has driven up prices for everything that goes into data centers, including high-speed RAM chips as well as SSDs. Research firm Trendforceexpects NAND prices to rise...
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