It is worth mentioning that the place where the fire occurred is located on the project site and it has no impact on the current production line.
On October 29, 2017, SK hynix and the Wuxi municipal government signed a contract for the new second plant project of Hynix with a total investment of US$8.6 billion. After the completion of the construction, it will produce 200,000 wafers per month at the 10nm process level. Base, the annual sales amount increased from the current 1.9 billion US dollars to 3.3 billion US dollars.
SK hynix is the world's second-largest semiconductor memory producer in the world. SK hynix Semiconductor (China) Co., Ltd. has established five major investments since it was established in Tin in 2005, with a cumulative investment of 10.5 billion U.S. dollars. The largest investment project with the most advanced technology is also the largest foreign investment project in Jiangsu Province.
It has to be said that SK hynix has been extremely troublesome in Wuxi. In 2008, there were power outages for 4 hours, and in 2013 there were major fires. There was a large number of wafer scraps, which had a major impact on global DRAM memory and NAND flash memory supply.
In addition, according to the exclusive report of Micro-Net, China’s anti-monopoly agencies have recently launched investigations on three companies, Samsung, Hynix, and Micron, which may involve the soaring prices of DRAM makers and the industry’s products in recent years. The tying problem. At present, all three companies have confirmed that the staff of the China National Market Supervision Administration visited their office and said they would cooperate with the investigation.