Hynix is a southeast-asia company that manufactures memory products just like Samsung, Micron, Infineon, etc. They used to be a bottom of the barrel kind of manufacturer that kept getting bailed out by Korean (I believe, I may have the wrong country) goverment so that the company wouldn't go under. Now they have their act together more so now with automating their fabrication plants and thus are gaining more momentum in the semiconductor industry. Just FYI....