Why Korea's chip boom is stirring hopes far from Seoul

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• ·AI memory boom gives southwest regions rare opening, but Samsung, SK still need math to work A rendering of SK hynix’s planned P&T7 packaging and testing facility in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, where the chipmaker is expanding capacity for AI memory chips.
• ·(SK hynix) Across Korea’s southwest, politicians have spent the last week hinting that the country’s two chip giants may be preparing investments there.
• ·Samsung Electronics and SK hynix say they know nothing about it.
• ·The promise was put most plainly on June 6, when Min Hyung-bae, the incoming leader of the new unified Gwangju region, told a forum that the prime minister had leaned in and told him, quietly, that "something is coming." That something, he indicated, was a share of the semiconductor boom that has enriched both companies while much of the country looked on.
• ·Whether it is in fact coming, neither firm will confirm.