According to CoinMeta and Korean media reports, forecasts indicate that with substantial investments from companies such as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, South Korea will maintain its leading position in the global memory chip market until 2031. The demand for high-bandwidth memory is expected to rapidly expand from NVIDIA's graphics processors to artificial intelligence accelerators developed in-house by large technology companies like Google. Josephine Lu, an industry analyst at French market research firm Yole, stated at the 2026 Future Memory and Storage Conference held in California that South Korea will retain its leading position in the memory industry before 2031. Lu mentioned that South Korea plans to double its wafer production capacity over the next five years, and both Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix have also increased their investments. Analysts point out that as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix simultaneously expand their production capacity and technological research and development of the next generation of memory (including DDR5 and DDR6), South Korea's advantage will continue to be maintained.