SK Hynix CFO Kim Woohyun said that the outlook for memory demand in 2025 was clouded by inventory adjustments, protective trade policies and geopolitical risks.

However, SK's shares dropped by as much as 4.7 percent after chief financial officer Kim Woo-hyun warned of weaker demand ahead for memory chips used in PCs and smartphones, rising competition from Chinese memory firms and growing market uncertainty.

South Korea's SK Hynix on Thursday posted a record quarterly profit as the Nvidia supplier saw strong sales of advanced chips such as high bandwidth memory (HBM) used in generative artificial intelligence chipsets.