SK Hynix backs Semidynamics AI chips

Strategic investment accelerates memory-first AI inference platform.

April 13, 2026

Jon Peddie

Semidynamics just landed a strategic investment from SK Hynix, a major memory chipmaker. The Barcelona-based company designs RISC-V processors built from the ground up to solve the memory bottlenecks that limit large-scale AI inference. This partnership highlights how memory architecture now drives cost per token in agentic AI workloads. Exciting times for European silicon innovation! Semidynamics announced a strategic investment from SK Hynix on April 8, 2026. Both companies agree that memory architecture determines the economics of next-generation AI inference, where cost per token matters most. As LLMs grow and agentic multi-turn workloads require persistent long context, memory capacity and

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