According to CoinMeta, SK Hynix significantly increased its equipment investment and R&D spending in the first half of this year to meet the growing demand for artificial intelligence storage. According to the semi-annual report disclosed on the 14th, SK Hynix spent over 18 trillion Korean won on tangible assets in the first half of the year, a 72.7% increase from the same period last year. The total R&D expenditure amounted to 6.0428 trillion Korean won, a 98.4% increase from the same period last year. With the continuous growth in demand for high-bandwidth memory (DDR5), servers, and enterprise-level solid-state drives (SSDs), SK Hynix is accelerating the expansion of its production facilities.