Retail traders bet on SK Hynix as the AI supply-chain bottleneck play

Retail tech traders are increasingly drawing parallels between South Korea's SK Hynix and Micron Technology, viewing the memory maker as a critical — and hard-to-replace — bottleneck in the AI supply chain. Options on SK Hynix shares are attracting growing interest from retail investors seeking exposure to the HBM memory boom driven by AI chip demand.