
<body><p>STORY: South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix intends to price its American Depository Receipts at $149 on Thursday to raise about $26.5 billion, a person familiar with the matter said.</p><p>The share sale decision comes as the company leverages its position as the leading supplier of high-bandwidth memory chips, a critical component for the advanced processors powering global artificial intelligence systems.</p><p>It will start trading on Friday under the ticker symbol "SKHY" on Nasdaq.</p><p>"The hottest space in the equity market right now has been memory, inside the semiconductor space," Martin Adams said. But, she added, the rally has "taken a bit of a pause," with shares of memory chip companies, including SK Hynix and fellow South Korean tech powerhouse Samsung, down over the past month.</p><p>Whether SK Hynix's U.S. issuance can reinvigorate the trade "is the question of the hour, and possibly the question of the month of July," Martin Adams said.</p></body>
