SK Hynix plans to resume construction of its second factory in Dalian, China, expanding local NAND flash production capacity by approximately 50% to accelerate its presence in the enterprise storage market and meet the growing demand from AI data centers. According to semiconductor industry sources, Solidigm, SK Hynix's NAND subsidiary, restarted investment and construction work on the second Dalian factory in the first half of this year. The plan is to introduce production equipment as early as November this year and establish a mass production system in the first half of next year. The new production line is expected to have a monthly wafer input capacity of approximately 50,000 wafers. Combined with the existing Dalian first factory's monthly capacity of 100,000 wafers, the total local capacity will increase by about 50%. This expansion will focus on producing 100-layer NAND based on mature technology, while mass production of high-layer-count NAND (300 layers and above) will be concentrated at facilities such as M17 in Cheongju, South Korea.