{"id":278570,"date":"2026-06-22T05:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T09:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/samsung-just-lost-a-crown-it-held-for-25-years\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T10:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:55:10","slug":"samsung-just-lost-a-crown-it-held-for-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/samsung-just-lost-a-crown-it-held-for-25-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung just lost a crown it held for 25 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/sk-hynix-overtakes-samsung-south-korea-market-capitalization-3679758\/\">Samsung just lost a crown it held for 25 years<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/sk-hynix-overtakes-samsung-south-korea-market-capitalization-3679758\/\">https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/sk-hynix-overtakes-samsung-south-korea-market-capitalization-3679758\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-22 05:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidauthority.com\">www.androidauthority.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Edgar Cervantes \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chipmaker SK Hynix has toppled Samsung as the most valuable publicly listed company in South Korea.<\/li>\n<li>It has a market cap of approximately $1.35 trillion, largely due to the boom in demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s also expanding its capacity for DRAM production.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The AI boom isn\u2019t just causing smartphone prices to increase, it\u2019s also impacting the value of companies that make chips for AI systems. For over 25 years, Samsung was the biggest publicly listed company by market capitalization in South Korea, its home market. However, with the increased demand for AI chips, SK Hynix has now surpassed its market valuation for the first time ever.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Reuters report, South Korean chip manufacturer SK Hynix has overtaken Samsung, with a market capitalization of 2,080.4 trillion won (~$1.35 trillion), compared with Samsung\u2019s 2,066.7 trillion won (~$1.34 trillion), excluding preferred shares.<\/p>\n<p>SK Hynix has had a turbulent history: before being acquired by SK Group, the company nearly went bankrupt and was on the verge of being sold to Micron in 2002. It was also considered a penny stock in 2003, with its shares trading at just 135 won (~$0.088).<\/p>\n<p>The primary factor in SK Hynix\u2019s sudden growth is the increased demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips. The company is the leading supplier of HBM chips, with its memory being used in AI systems for NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Google. It currently holds a 61% share in the HBM market, compared to Micron\u2019s 21% and Samsung\u2019s 17%.<\/p>\n<p>SK Hynix continued investing in HBM development during a period of low growth in the memory market, and analysts suggest that this investment is why it\u2019s now one of the strongest players in the market.<\/p>\n<p>While memory chips are usually interchangeable, the same isn\u2019t usually true for HBM chips. SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won said:<\/p>\n<p>HBM is different. If SK Hynix\u2019s HBM is replaced with another product, the \u200bAI system may not&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/sk-hynix-overtakes-samsung-south-korea-market-capitalization-3679758\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung just lost a crown it held for 25 years https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/sk-hynix-overtakes-samsung-south-korea-market-capitalization-3679758\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-22 05:03:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":278572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Samsung-logo-at-CES-2025-Stock-photo-3.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,86],"class_list":["post-278570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278573,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278570\/revisions\/278573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}