SK Hynix flagged plans to lift spending this year on advanced chipmaking after posting a record quarterly profit on Thursday, boosted by strong demand for artificial intelligence chips and customers stockpiling ahead of potential U.

SK Hynix Inc (KS:000660), a key memory chip supplier to Nvidia, posted record second-quarter earnings fueled by booming demand from the artificial intelligence sector. The South Korean chipmakers operating profit

SK hynix, the world's top memory chip-maker by revenue, hit an all-time high quarterly operating profit of 9.2 trillion won ($6.73 billion) in the April-June pe