SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's SK Hynix, a chip supplier to Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Huawei, said on Friday its fourth-quarter operating profit slumped 95%, missing analysts' estimates, as chip prices were hit by oversupply and a demand slowdown.
SK Hynix, the world's No. 2 memory chip maker after Samsung Electronics (KS:005930), said its operating profit was 236 billion won in the December quarter, below a 433 billion won average forecast drawn from 19 analysts, according to Refinitiv data.
That compared with an operating profit of 4.4 trillion won a year earlier.
It also swung to a net loss of 118 billion won.
