SK Hynix's $75B AI Memory Jackpot: Sold Out Through 2029
💾 SK Hynix's $75B AI Memory Jackpot: Sold Out Through 2029 Co-produced by Daniel Aharonoff and DigitalDan As the chief editor of mindburst.ai, I have covered a lot of wild numbers in the AI boom — trillion-dollar valuations, hundred-billion-dollar data center buildouts, funding rounds that sound like typos. But every once in a while, a number comes along that genuinely stops me in my tracks. This is one of those moments. On Wednesday, October 28, 2026, South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix reported a quarterly operating profit of 83.33 trillion won — roughly $63 billion — on revenue of 104.62 trillion won, about $75.5 billion. Let that sink in for a second. This is a memory chip company. It makes the little silicon slabs that sit next to processors. And it just posted one of the most profitable quarters in the history of technology, with an operating margin of nearly 80 percent. Oh, and one more detail: SK Hynix says it is effectively sold out of its AI memory chips through 2029,...
