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SK hynix reported third-quarter revenue of 104.62 trillion won, ahead of the 98.34 trillion won analysts expected, CNBC reports. Operating profit reached 83.33 trillion won, beating the 76.72 trillion won forecast.

Revenue rose 327.9% year on year and 31.9% from the previous quarter. Operating profit climbed 632.1% year on year and 37.6% quarter on quarter, giving the earnings beat some rather substantial numbers to stand on.

CNBC attributes the results in part to SK hynix’s position as a key supplier of high-bandwidth memory chips to Nvidia amid the AI infrastructure build-out. The figures add scale to the demand story, without by themselves showing how long this pace of growth will last.

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• SK Hynix third-quarter profit sharply beats estimates on AI memory boost - CNBC: CNBC reports that SK hynix’s third-quarter revenue and operating profit exceeded analysts’ estimates, with both measures rising sharply year on year and quarter on quarter.

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Euronews reports that SK hynix shares rose almost 9% after the company’s third-quarter results, while Samsung gained more than 8% ahead of its own results. Seoul’s Kospi climbed more than 6%, extending the earnings story from chip profits to a broad market response.

The gains reached other major chip and technology markets: Japan’s Nikkei 225 rose more than 1%, with Kioxia up over 10%, while Advantest and Tokyo Electron also advanced. Taiwan’s market was lifted by TSMC, Euronews says.

Investors were also looking ahead to results from Microsoft and Alphabet later that day, followed by Amazon, Apple and Intel on Thursday. The report adds a useful measure of how far optimism around AI-linked demand had spread, though market gains are not proof that the spending behind it will pay off.

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• Tech stocks soar as SK hynix adds to rising AI confidence - Euronews.com: Euronews reports that SK hynix’s third-quarter results helped lift its shares and other Asian markets, with several major technology companies’ results due later that week.

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TradingView’s Seeking Alpha-sourced report says SK hynix announced more than $25 billion in dividends and share buybacks alongside its record quarterly profit. The report gives no breakdown of the amount or schedule, but the scale makes this a substantial shareholder-return announcement, not just another market reaction to the results.

The report also says Samsung shares rose 11% in South Korea, while Micron gained 3.7% and AMD 1.7% in US premarket trading. Those moves offer a fresh snapshot of how far the response reached across memory and AI-chip stocks.

The figures and market movements are reported by TradingView’s item; it does not provide further terms for the return programme. The open question is whether SK hynix can reward shareholders at this scale while keeping enough capital for the capacity its AI-memory business may need.

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• AI memory, chip stocks gain after SK Hynix posts record profit - TradingView: TradingView’s Seeking Alpha-sourced item reports that SK hynix announced more than $25 billion in dividends and share buybacks alongside its record quarterly profit, with reported gains in several memory and AI-chip stocks.

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