SK Hynix Inc (000660.KS) — Technical state

Long reads

• Where to Invest in the AI Chip Constraint ChainDossier · $29 · 3 Mar 2026One structural update since publication: SK Hynix now also trades in the US as SKHY after its July 2026 Nasdaq ADR listing.
• AI Economy — Three Futures for 2030, and the One the Model Leaves OutReport · 14 Sept 2026The capital stock that the extreme scenario needs — 56% above its no-AI path by 2030, 14% in the substantial case — is being ordered now, and the ordering is itself a demand shock the model does not carry: Alphabet’s…
• Nvidia Ecosystem — Wave 1: The ‘Stacking’ PeakReport · 20 Feb 2026SK Hynix 000660.KS 0.94 Correlation Tier I Classification 2026/27 Peak Role HBM4 Market Leader Why Primary yield leader for 16-layer HBM4 stacks.

101 and glossary

• Memory Wall & HBM Economics: The Next AI Constraint101Only two companies can produce HBM at scale: SK Hynix and Micron (Samsung is catching up but trailing).
• NVIDIA Investor's Timeline: Hopper to Blackwell to Rubin and Beyond101Companies that benefited from Hopper ramp (TSMC CoWoS, SK Hynix HBM3) are now looking at Blackwell and Rubin for growth.

Dailies

• Rates — Fed day at a 5% 10-year: the hike is priced, the cycle is not; Yardeni cuts the S&P target to 7,900Morning 10 · 16 Sept 2026Overnight Asia is green — Kospi +0.7%, SK Hynix +2.6%, Samsung +1.3%, Taiex +0.7%, Nikkei +0.3%, SoftBank −1.9% — and the futures are flat; Brent $108.16, gold $4,364, the yen 155.3 with the Bank of Japan expected to hike to 1.25% on…
• AI trade — sellers of compute sold, buyers bought: chips −5.6%, software +5%, SoftBank +7% in TokyoMorning 10 · 15 Sept 2026Overnight Asia is calmer than Monday — the Kospi −1.2%, SK Hynix −0.9%, TSMC unchanged — and SoftBank has bounced 7% in Tokyo after Monday’s 11% fall.
• AI trade — the labs ask for a slowdown: Kospi −3.3%, SoftBank −11%, Nasdaq futures −1.2%, oil back above $106Morning 10 · 14 Sept 2026Three frontier labs on one page is a new fact, and Asia traded it as a demand story for the physical layer: the Kospi lost 3.3% to 6,679 with SK Hynix −6.7% and Samsung −4.0%, SoftBank — OpenAI’s largest outside backer — fell 11.3% in…
• Oil settles at $107.63, the 10-year hits 4.95% and the 30-year 5.36%, its highest since 2007: chips lead a fourth down day, Oracle beats and jumps 4% after hours, Adobe beats and slips — and Asia sells its chipmakers 3% to 7%Morning 10 · 11 Sept 2026Asia sells the chips it bought on Thursday: Nikkei −2.0% to 63,971 after −2.8% intraday, Advantest −6.8%, Kioxia −7.0%, Lasertec −5.0%, SoftBank −4.2%; Kospi 6,923, −1.6%, after a 6,859 low, Samsung −3.3%, SK hynix −1.7%; Taiwan −1.6%…
• Brent closes above $100 for the first time since July and the 10-year hits 4.86%: Wall Street falls a third day while Cloudflare +10%, Datadog +7% and Meta +7% catch the money the chip leaders gave backMorning 10 · 10 Sept 2026Asia is selling the oil, not the chips: the Kospi fell more than 1% in the morning and has clawed back to 7,043, SK hynix +0.2%, Advantest +2.7%, the Nikkei −0.4%, Hong Kong −1.3% with Alibaba −3.2%, Australia −1.4%.
• Oil knocks on $100 and Wall Street sells everything but the AI pipe: Intel +9%, Lumentum +11%, Dow −1.2% — Seoul buys the dip and the Kospi is back above 7,000Morning 10 · 9 Sept 2026Asia took the chips and left the rest: the Kospi is up 1.2% at 7,038 with SK hynix +3.1%, the Nikkei is down 0.3% with Advantest −3.3% and SoftBank +3.2% on a $10–20 billion bond plan, and China’s producer prices rose 3.8%, the most in…
• The trade flips at midday: chips fade, software bounces — Meta +6%, Cloudflare +9%, Datadog +6% while oil holds $101 and the 10-year hits 4.85%Midday 10 · 9 Sept 2026Asia held its leg of the trade: Kospi closes 7,068, SK hynix ADR at a record, Furukawa Electric +13% in Tokyo
• Asia’s chip rally fades into the close: Kospi touches 7,171 and ends under 7,000, Nikkei −1.2% on a 153 yen — and Lenovo drops 6%, Z.ai 10% in Hong KongMorning 10 · 8 Sept 2026Seoul opened above 7,000 for the first time since July, ran to 7,171 on foreign and institutional buying, then gave all of it back to close at 6,974.85, down 0.3%, with SK hynix’s 5% afternoon gain shrinking to 0.8% by the bell.