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TL;DR: Korea’s June 29 plan puts over $550B toward new memory fabs — a slice of a much larger $3.1T multi-decade Samsung/SK spending plan. Most new capacity targets high-margin server DRAM and HBM, not everyday PC/laptop memory. Micron is running its own parallel expansion; China’s CXMT is growing fast but not yet server/HBM-ready. Real relief…
Read MoreOn June 15, AMD announced it had acquired MEXT, a small software company with an unusual pitch: make cheap NAND flash look like DRAM to the operating system, so a server can run with far less of the expensive stuff. Terms weren’t disclosed, and AMD picked up MEXT’s engineering team along with the technology. For…
Read MoreIn early June, a single analyst note briefly knocked the memory trade off balance. Barron’s reported that Karl Ackerman expects DRAM and NAND average selling prices (ASPs) to peak in mid-2026 and begin falling quarter over quarter as early as 2027 — roughly a year ahead of his own earlier forecast. Micron’s stock fell on…
Read MoreWhile the AI super-cycle keeps DRAM, HBM, and 3D TLC NAND in the headlines, a quieter — and arguably more violent — squeeze is unfolding in the corner of the memory market that almost nobody outside of embedded design houses talks about: planar 2D NAND, especially MLC and SLC. Prices on some part numbers are…
Read MoreThe AI industry is currently locked in a trillion-dollar race against physics. As models like Gemini and GPT-4 scale, they inevitably crash into a physical bottleneck known as the “AI Memory Wall.” For IT asset managers and CTOs, this isn’t a theoretical computer science problem—it translates daily into exorbitant High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) costs and…
Read MoreFor IT procurement officers and data center managers, the start of 2026 has felt less like a new fiscal year and more like a high-stakes auction. If you were hoping for the “inventory normalization” many analysts predicted late last year, the latest data suggests a much harsher reality. We are currently witnessing a historic “seller’s…
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