Samsung becomes first to top $1 billion in HBM4 sales 

Surging demand made the chipmaker the first to surpass the milestone just four months after launch.

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Person photographing a Samsung HBM4/4E memory display at a shareholder meeting in Suwon.
A Samsung Electronics shareholder takes a picture of the company's high bandwidth memory chips at the annual general shareholder meeting in Suwon, Gyeonggi, on March 18.

Samsung Electronics has become the first chipmaker to surpass $1 billion in sales of sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM4), industry sources said Tuesday.

Demand for HBM4 has surged in recent months. Samsung reached the milestone about four months after it began the world's first mass-production shipments of the chip on Feb. 12.

Sales are expected to exceed $1.2 billion by the end of June.





BY SHIN HYE-YEON [[email protected]]

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