SK Hynix ties new US plant to looser chip equipment exports to China, sources say
pstAsiatech · x · 2026-10-15
According to sources, SK Hynix is conditioning its new US factory plans on Washington allowing more US chip equipment exports to China. The unconfirmed report suggests the memory giant is leveraging US market investment as a bargaining chip in export-control negotiations — a sign of how deeply geopolitics is entangled with the semiconductor supply chain.
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