SEOUL, July 25 (Reuters) - South Korea's SK Hynix ( HXSCF )

posted on Thursday its third consecutive quarterly

profit as the Nvidia ( NVDA ) supplier sees explosive sales of

its advanced DRAM chips such as high bandwidth memory (HBM) used

in generative AI chip sets.

The world's second-biggest memory chipmaker reported a 5.47

trillion won ($3.96 billion) operating profit for the April-June

quarter versus a loss of 2.9 trillion won a year earlier.

It was in line with expectations for a 5.4 trillion won

operating profit from LSEG SmartEstimate which is weighted

toward analysts who are more consistently accurate.

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