Scrutica
Supply Chain
Power capacity, hardware inventory, upstream suppliers, and downstream customers for the row owned by SK Hynix; any BIS Entity List exposure is walked through the canonical org graph rather than asserted at the facility row.
Capacity, ownership chain, and supply-chain position for SK hynix Icheon M16, including any export-control exposure that surfaces when the BIS Entity List touches a node above the facility in the chain.
As of 2026-06-12
Operator (or owner of record) per the Scrutica facility row.
SK Hynix, the documented owner of SK hynix Icheon M16, sits as a seed node in 2 pre-built cascade scenarios. Severity is the scenario's seed-impact value (per-node override where one is defined); decay reflects the curator's substitutability assessment for the disrupted role. Run any scenario to walk the propagation through the full supply-chain graph.
US strategic helium reserve and alternative shipping routes (Australian, Algerian, US domestic LNG-byproduct streams) provide some buffer; helium boil-off limits stockpiling beyond ~45 days, so the buffer is real but bounded.
HBM is required for every AI accelerator and SK Hynix carries ~57% market share, but Samsung and Micron are pre-qualified for HBM3E and can ramp without re-qualification — multi-sourcing dampens propagation modestly per hop.
Description
SK hynix advanced DRAM and HBM production fab in Icheon campus. Primary site for HBM3E production for NVIDIA AI GPUs.
Notes
Produces HBM3E for NVIDIA H100/H200/B200.
Parent / controlling entity, documented through a public filing or LEI registry.
Source: Company disclosure (press / IR) · Confidence HIGH
Chain terminates at a publicly-listed entity (SK hynix America). Subsequent ownership is observable via SEC filings or the equivalent national registry.
South Korea (KR)
Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy operates strategic-trade controls under the Foreign Trade Act.
Regimes: Wassenaar Arrangement; Korean Strategic Goods Control
Established via: SK Hynix
United States (US)
Operates the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and the BIS Entity List under 15 CFR 730–774; deemed-export rules extend reach to foreign nationals on US soil.
Regimes: Wassenaar Arrangement; US EAR (BIS Entity List authority)
Established via: SK hynix America
No flags found across the chain (BIS Entity List, designation-cascade closures, or compute-threshold reporting obligations) as of 2026-06-12. Cascade closures evaluated: 0.
No ownership-change events documented in the available data for any entity in this chain over the last 5 years. Events draw from a licensed corporate-ownership database’s deal records (M&A, buyout, divestiture, asset sale, JV formation); coverage is strongest for private US/EU transactions and partial for state-owned-enterprise restructurings or non-Western private deals. Subsequent ingestion runs may add events here.
Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund
PIF is associated with Saudi Arabia’s Saudi Arabia: HUMAIN / Project Transcendence. See actor profile →
Touches SK Hynix (chain hop 1) via a private-market fund. Commitment dollar value not disclosed (2008-03-10).
The walk for SK hynix Icheon M16starts at the operator org id (or owner org id when no operator is recorded) and climbs upward through the unified affiliate graph, normalized to trace child-to-parent relationships. At each hop, the highest-authority parent edge wins (priority ordering: SEC EDGAR / 10-K / LEI registry > licensed corporate-ownership database > licensed supply-chain database > BIS / Federal Register > licensed affiliate graph). Confidence and recency break ties.
The walk terminates on (a) a node with a public-filing-grade ancestor edge — a SEC filer, an LEI-registered listed entity, or a 10-K-disclosed parent — (b) a government entity, (c) a 10-hop limit, or (d) a detected cycle. When termination is not at a public filer or government, the panel labels the chain's end-state as opaque beyond that point. Opacity is reported, never implied.
Per-source confidence (licensed corporate-ownership database): HIGH for Parent / Subsidiary edges; MEDIUM for JV and AFFILIATE edges. Known limitations: (1) shell companies with undisclosed principals terminate the public-record walk; (2) recent transactions reach the panel after the database's weekly refresh; (3) cross-jurisdiction private holding structures may carry intermediate hops that are not in any ingested source. Each row carries an edge-level as of date so freshness is auditable per hop.
Two further caveats are inherent to how the walker and the underlying data compose. The walker selects a single highest-authority parent per hop, so JV or multi-parent ownership structures collapse to one displayed path; alternate parents exist in the ingested sources but are not surfaced on this card. And some licensed-database edges encode parent-of relations against entity-resolved stub IDs whose display name reflects a sub-entity (a business unit, an acquired-then-renamed line) rather than the canonical parent — when a chain reads structurally surprising, the per-row source citation is the authoritative reference, not the chain's narrative shape.
Computed at: 2026-06-12. Walk depth observed: 2 hops. Sources combined: Scrutica facility record + licensed corporate-ownership database + SEC CIK cross-reference + LEI registry + (where applicable) licensed supply-chain database + Federal Register designation closures. The licensed databases are held under subscription and not redistributed; per-hop labels name no vendor.
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