Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang had asked memory chip maker SK Hynix to bring forward by six months the supply of its next-generation high-bandwidth memory chips called HBM4, SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won said on Monday.

SK Group Chair Chey Tae-won said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang asked him if SK Hynix could move the supply of high-bandwith memory (HBM) chips forward by six months.

SK Hynix, the world’s second-largest memorychip maker, is racing to meet explosive demand for the high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips that are used to process vast amounts of data to train AI, including from Nvidia, which dominates the market.