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The people, companies and trends shaping the global economy. Watch Carol and Tim LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF (http://bit.ly/3vTiACF). SK Hynix Inc. is considering new ways of selling access to its memory chips, including a concept called “memory as a service,” suggesting customers could rent usage from the South Korean company rather than purchasing the actual semiconductors. “We could actually deliver some other business models,” SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won said in an interview with Bloomberg Television. “We could be memory servicers, memory as a service. In the future, that is another area where we could actually focus.” Chey, whose company controls SK Hynix, made the comments after the South Korean chipmaker raised $26.5 billion with its American depositary receipt offering, the largest ever US first-time share sale by a foreign company. SK Hynix’s ADRs opened about 14% above their offering price. Chey didn’t specify exactly how such a business model would work and said new software would be needed to enable it. But tech companies have run “software as a service” businesses and other variations in which clients can pay usage fees to access software or computing power rather than buy it outright. Chey said the goal of such a new service would be to solve the bottleneck of memory capacity. On this episode, Carol Massar and guest host Isabelle Lee speak with: Ed Ludlow, Bloomberg Tech Host Nina Trentmann, Bloomberg News Senior Editor AND Chris Stansbury, CFO, Lumen on Lumen's Data-Center Fiber Deals, Alkira acquisition Stuart Paul, Bloomberg Economics US & Canada Economist on Fed’s Warsh Names Leadership for Five New Task Forces Richard O'Brien, GM at Giesen Wine on Giesen’s early entry into the non-alcoholic wine category and the evolution of Giesen 0% into the #1 premium NA wine brand in the U.S. See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information. Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec bring together the latest news from the world of business and finance and the interesting stories of global technology, politics, economics and more by harnessing the power of Bloomberg Businessweek reporters and editors. Subscribe to Bloomberg Podcasts: https://bit.ly/BloombergPodcasts Listen to more of Bloomberg Businessweek:    • Bloomberg Businessweek (Audio)   #Bloomberg #Podcast #News #Businessweek Visit us: https://www.bloomberg.com/podcasts Follow Bloomberg Podcasts on Twitter:   / podcasts   Visit our other YouTube channels: Bloomberg Television:    / @markets   Bloomberg Originals:    / bloomberg   Quicktake:    / @bloombergquicktake   For coverage on news, markets and more: http://www.bloomberg.com/video