According to The Korea Herald, Samsung Electronics Co. narrowed the gap with market leader SK hynix Inc. in the global high bandwidth memory (HBM) chip market in the second quarter, according to industry data released Thursday. Counterpoint Research said SK hynix kept the No. 1 spot with a 50% share of the market by revenue in the April-June period, down 8 percentage points from 58% in the previous quarter. Samsung Electronics significantly increased its share, though the source text provided here cuts off before giving the full figure.