Seoul: SK hynix Inc. stood as the leading player in the global dynamic random access memory (DRAM) market in the third quarter amid the boom in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry, data showed Wednesday.
According to Yonhap News Agency, industry tracker Counterpoint Research reported that SK hynix accounted for 35 percent of the global DRAM market in terms of sales with US$13.7 billion, followed by Samsung Electronics with 34 percent. SK hynix outperformed Samsung Electronics in the DRAM sector for the first time in the first quarter of 2025, driven by robust shipments of high bandwidth memory (HBM), considered a key component for AI infrastructure.
The gap between SK hynix and Samsung Electronics, however, narrowed to just 1 percentage point in the third quarter, compared with 6 percentage points in the previous quarter. "SK hynix maintains solid leadership in the HBM sector with a market share of 58 percent and is expected to post sound performance in the fourth quarter as well amid growing demand for AI memory chips," the researcher said.