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SK hynix Launches ‘SK hynix Ventures’ in Silicon Valley to Expand Global AI Ecosystem Investment

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CEO Kwak Noh-Jung and key executives, alongside global VCs and startup leaders, attend the inaugural ‘SK hynix Ventures Day’ in Silicon ValleyCompany to expand investments across the entire AI ecosystemDiscussing strategies to strengthen partnerships with global venture firms and investors in future technology fields such as AI data centers and optical-based systems

SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — SK hynix Inc. (or “the company”, www.skhynix.com) announced today the launch of its corporate venture capital (CVC) brand, “SK hynix Ventures,” aimed at expanding strategic partnerships within the global AI ecosystem and securing future innovative technologies.

To mark the occasion, SK hynix held the inaugural “SK hynix Ventures Day” in Silicon Valley, where executives shared investment strategies with global venture capitalists and startup representatives while discussing future technological cooperation to respond to shifts in the AI industry.

The event was attended by CEO Kwak Noh-Jung and key executive leadership, alongside representatives from global VC firms and executives from leading startups.

Expanding Beyond Tech Sensing to Become a Strategic Partner in the AI Ecosystem

Since 2015, SK hynix has operated a CVC organization, pursuing both direct investments and indirect investments via fund commitments in promising early-stage startups within the semiconductor and emerging tech sectors. By investing in enterprises across key regions including the U.S., China, Israel, and Japan, the company has achieved returns exceeding twice its cumulative investment to date. Furthermore, it has accumulated a track record of discovering new supply chains and customers by pursuing technological collaborations—such as joint equipment development and Proof of Concept (PoC)—with portfolio companies.

While past CVC activities focused primarily on “Tech Sensing” to explore future technology trends and “Path Finding” to discover new business opportunities, the company now plans to expand its CVC scope. Driven by recent advancements in AI technology and industry expansion, the role will evolve from simply discovering promising companies to leading collaborative innovation across the entire ecosystem.

Discussing Cooperation in AI Computing, Data Centers, and Optical Interconnect

Through SK hynix Ventures, the company plans to broaden its investment scope from traditional semiconductors and emerging tech to the broader AI ecosystem. SK hynix aims to discover technologies and companies with high growth potential in core AI industry sectors—including AI computing, data centers, system software, and optical interconnect—and continually expand its CVC investments.

Meanwhile, the event was attended by promising startups in the U.S. AI computing and data center technology sectors. These companies shared perspectives on future technological innovations, discussing the growing importance of computing, memory, and system software innovations driven by advanced AI models, alongside the performance and power efficiency of optical-based systems for AI data centers.

“Competitiveness in the AI era stems not just from rapidly securing innovative technologies, but from ecosystem capabilities where customers, partners, and startups create new value together,” said Kwak Noh-Jung, CEO of SK hynix. “Through SK hynix Ventures, we will support the growth of promising companies and grow into a global partner that jointly designs the future of AI infrastructure based on strategic investments and technological cooperation.”

About SK hynix Inc.
SK hynix Inc., headquartered in Korea, is the world’s top-tier semiconductor supplier offering Dynamic Random Access Memory chips (“DRAM”) and flash memory chips (“NAND flash”) for a wide range of distinguished customers globally. The Company’s common shares are traded on the Korea Exchange, its American Depositary Shares are traded on NASDAQ, and its Global Depository Shares are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. Further information about SK hynix is available at www.skhynix.com, news.skhynix.com.

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Svalner Atlas | Advisors wins three Firm of the Year awards at the ITR Europe Tax Awards 2026

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STOCKHOLM, Sept. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The awards recognise the expertise and impact of Svalner Atlas’ work for clients across its markets

Svalner Atlas was named:

Finland: Transfer Pricing Firm of the YearNetherlands: Tax Advisory Firm of the YearSweden: Tax Advisory Firm of the Year

What the awards recognise

The ITR Europe Tax Awards recognise firms for work that stands out for its innovation, complexity, scale and impact. The assessment is based on significant client matters, independent market research and client feedback.

The three awards recognise Svalner Atlas’ ability to combine deep local expertise with international capabilities, bringing together specialists across markets and disciplines to help clients navigate complex tax and transaction matters.

“Tax challenges do not stop at national borders. Clients need advisers who understand the local detail, coordinate effectively across markets, and translate complexity into practical advice. These awards recognise that approach and the expertise of our teams,” said Viktor Sandberg, Group CEO of Svalner Atlas.

About Svalner Atlas | Advisors

Svalner Atlas | Advisors is a leading tax and transaction advisory firm operating across the Nordics and Benelux. Its more than 450 professionals advise entrepreneurs, private equity firms and multinational corporations, combining local market knowledge with international capabilities.

For more information, visit svalneratlas.com.

About the ITR Europe Tax Awards

The International Tax Review Europe Tax Awards recognise leading tax and transfer pricing firms and practitioners across Europe. Firms are assessed on significant client matters, with particular attention to innovation, complexity, scale and impact, supported by market research and client feedback.

The awards were presented at The Londoner in London on 17 September 2026.

For more information contact:
Svalner Atlas: Frida Rydin, Group COO
E-mail: frida.rydin@svalneratlas.com

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Antonony Gu, Huawei Cloud: All for AI, Huawei Cloud Stack Powers a New Era of Intelligence

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SHANGHAI, Sept. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — At HUAWEI CONNECT 2026, Huawei hosted the Huawei Cloud Summit under the theme “Agentic Hybrid Cloud: Powering a New Era of Intelligence.” Antonony Gu, President of Huawei Hybrid Cloud, delivered a keynote speech at the summit, discussing the changes driven by AI agents, Huawei Cloud Stack’s evolution across four key areas—cloud infrastructure, data, AI, and ecosystem—guided by the principle of “All for AI”, and its commitment to helping enterprises embrace the agentic AI era.

AI agents are among the most significant developments in AI today. Agents for coding, workplaces, design, customer service, marketing, and more are rapidly redefining how businesses get done. Antonony Gu highlighted that the rapid adoption of AI agents is driving three fundamental changes:

The actors driving business execution are changing: from humans using applications to human-agent collaboration and agent-to-agent (A2A) collaboration. AI agents are emerging at scale as a new class of digital employees.Resource provisioning is changing: AI agents are task-oriented, relying on compute, data, and models that are packaged and readily available for invocation. Resource delivery is shifting from layer-by-layer assembly to integrated capabilities organized around agent-driven tasks.What’s being managed is changing: The focus is shifting from traditional IT resources, such as compute, storage, and networking, to AI compute, data, and models. Managing these resources through separate systems can create new IT silos.

Addressing these changes, Huawei Cloud has introduced an AI agent-ready hybrid cloud architectureNext, comprising four key capabilities: an agile, elastic cloud infrastructure designed for continuous evolution and unified general-purpose and AI compute; an AI-native capability hub that connects data, compute, and tokens; an agent-native enablement platform for developing and running AI agents at scale; and intelligent operations and end-to-end security capabilities covering the entire AI agent lifecycle. Antonony Gu emphasized, “As AI agent adoption continues to accelerate over the next three to five years, a deterministic hybrid cloud architecture is a clear path forward for enterprises in the agentic world.”

As the agentic AI era approaches, Huawei Cloud Stack is evolving across four key areas: infrastructure, data, AI, and ecosystem.

Infrastructure evolution, building the foundation for AI: Huawei Cloud Stack builds Agentic Infra as the foundation for the AI era. This infrastructure supports the latest A5 SuperPoDs. With technologies like NPU pooling and memory snapshots, compute utilization can increase from 30% to 70%. Huawei Cloud Stack also provides an observable, measurable, and governable operations and management framework for AI agents, turning cloud management platforms into intelligent management hubs. It further provides end-to-end protection for infrastructure, models, and AI agents.Unleashing data value, turning enterprise data into intelligent productivity: Huawei Cloud Stack provides end-to-end data lifecycle capabilities for reliable data management, efficient data delivery, intelligent data use, and trusted data circulation. With a decoupled storage and compute architecture, AI DataLake for multimodal data management, and DataArts for intelligent, data-driven decision-making, Huawei Cloud Stack helps turn data into a new source of productivity while laying a solid data foundation for the agentic AI era.AI-driven industry, bringing AI into production across industries: Huawei Cloud is increasing its investment in foundation models and integrating such models with industry know-how to drive automated model iteration and continuous evolution. It offers leading domain-specific foundation models, such as Vision-Language Model (VLM), Scientific Computing Model, and Prediction Model, as well as OptVerse AI Solver for optimization and decision-making. Meanwhile, Huawei Cloud Stack leverages its model training and inference platform to deliver high-performance inference and a reliable supply of high-quality tokens, ensuring uninterrupted execution of agent tasks.Partner co-creation, building an open AI ecosystem together: Huawei Cloud remains committed to open collaboration on AI, backed by targeted incentives and dedicated AI and service capability improvement programs. Together with partners and developers, Huawei Cloud is building an Industry AI Foundry. By bringing together reference solutions and practices from areas such as Smart Finance and Smart Government, it aims to accelerate the replication of proven AI solutions across enterprise scenarios.

The agentic AI era is opening up new possibilities for enterprises. Looking ahead, Huawei Cloud Stack, guided by the principle of “All for AI,” will continue to invest heavily in Agentic Infra, data, and AI. Together with partners, Huawei Cloud Stack will foster an open ecosystem, helping enterprises build, use, and manage cloud environments efficiently and bring AI into production across industries.

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Moscow Game Hub at TGS: Survive The Secret Dark Antarctic Base in “The Black Ice” or Destroy Your Enemies with Ballet Moves in “TSAREVNA”

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TOKYO, Sept. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Tokyo Game Show 2026 is a milestone edition, running five days and gathering companies from 53 countries. The Moscow Game Hub booth deserves special attention: 12 Moscow studios present 29 projects, 19 localized into Japanese.

Horror games form the largest showcase section, with six innovative titles. Tiny Bunny (Game Art Pioneers) is a non-linear visual novel about a boy in a remote taiga village; player choices shape the story, with dozens of possible endings. The Black Ice is survival horror set at abandoned Vostok Antarctic station, where players uncover staff’s fate amid constant resource shortages. Fans of Exit 8 will enjoy Cauldron Inn, a dark folktale rooted in Slavic mythology where players spot anomalies in repeating locations to escape. In Run Away From Me: Alexandra, standard UI gives way to the heroine’s fitness tracker and phone screen, and panic directly impacts quest-solving ability. FIRE AND ASHES is immersive first-person horror reacting to sound: a scream may solve puzzles, yet only total silence can save you.

Among action titles, TSAREVNA: Age of Tales (WATT Studio) stands out. Drawing on Slavic folktales, ballet serves as a weapon. Its combat animations were made with a Bolshoi prima ballerina in a 60-camera Moscow motion-capture studio. Showcase premiere PIO: A Robot’s Story (Black Caviar Games) is a Souls-lite adventure following inventor Kira and robot PIO. Its TGS 2026 demo opens the story’s first chapter.

Three metroidvanias are on display: Slavania, Awaken: Astral Blade and Eclipse 2: Invasion of Darkness, blending metroidvania and hack-and-slash.

“Horror is the largest block at our booth — and that is a deliberate choice. Japan is where the genre was born, and we are bringing a Moscow reading of it to the audience that knows it best. Nineteen of our titles are already localized into Japanese. At a show with four thousand booths, what makes a visitor stop is a mechanic they have not seen before,” said Anastasia Rybkina, Head of Moscow Game Hub.

While showcasing titles, developers negotiate Japanese-market publishing deals. They offer Japanese companies localization and outsourced development for Russian-language audiences — Russian is among Steam’s top-3 languages. Moscow Game Hub hosts 70 resident companies with infrastructure from motion capture to sound recording.

More details about the games, screenshots and photos in the press kit at the link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1w-vqwAT8s8NHve5UVwq5ik4-pQ8zfyZ_

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