What workers rejected was not the wage increase but a shift to paying 60% of annual bonuses in company stock. Brokerages put the pool at roughly $500,000 per person.
The largest union voted down the 2026 wage deal by a 25-vote margin while a separate white-collar union approved its own version, leaving the company negotiating on two tracks.
Digital Frontier and Unitest have won a combined ~$203M in HBM4 wafer-test orders this year, chipping into a market long held by Japan's Advantest.
CXMT is still two to three generations behind, but is closing on China's domestic demand — a competitive backdrop for the world's biggest HBM supplier.
At a Dell Technologies Forum keynote an SK hynix VP laid out three research directions for AI memory — stacking on GPUs, in-memory processing, CXL pooling — with no product timeline.
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