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The world's second-biggest memory chip maker's long-term
strategy involves shifting its capacity expansion back to South
Korea, while its Wuxi chip production site caters to domestic
demand in China and the legacy DRAM memory chip market, the
TrendForce report said.
SK Hynix did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for
comment on Thursday. TrendForce said its report was based on its
"latest research", without citing sources.
The report said SK Hynix had planned for its Wuxi factory to
lower the output of legacy chips, but SK Hynix had instead
decided to increase production capacity of them due to the U.S.
curbs on exports of chip-making equipment to China, requiring
licenses for U.S. companies to export advanced chips and
chip-making equipment in a bid to slow China's technological
advance.
In March, SK Hynix's chief executive said it will ask the United
States for a year's further exemption from the curbs.
Last year, SK Hynix said it had received authorisation from the
U.S. Commerce Department for a year to supply equipment needed
for chip production in facilities in China, without seeking
additional licensing requirements.
SK Hynix has another chip plant in China in Dalian.
(Reporting by Heekyong Yang and Joyce Lee; Editing by Alexander
Smith and Susan Fenton)
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