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Micron Technology is a major American semiconductor company and one of the world's largest makers of DRAM and NAND flash memory chips.
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Samsung Electronics is expected to post 108.1 trillion won of third-quarter operating profit, nearly nine times last year's, in guidance due Thursday. With foundry, chip design and phones all losing money, that figure now moves with memory prices and the won.
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SK hynix accounted for 12 trillion won of the 20.3 trillion won that foreign investors sold net on the KOSPI between Sept. 1 and Oct. 2. With Samsung Electronics included, two memory makers carried about 85% of it, leaving little foreign selling for the rest of the market.
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Michael Burry swapped his Micron and Nebius shorts for put options expiring in June and September 2027, with Micron strikes near $500. His AI-bubble call now has a deadline and price levels that chip-stock holders can measure their own positions against.
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Micron guided to $61.5 billion of revenue next quarter against long-term supply commitments of $32 billion, about half of that one quarter. Investors price the uncommitted rest at about 6 to 13 times forward earnings, against 18 to 30 for Broadcom, whose custom chips sit under multi-year partnerships.
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September payrolls of 29,000, against an 84,000 consensus, lifted the Nasdaq 1.2% on Friday and turned a losing week into a 0.45% gain. Every major index was down through Thursday, so the AI-led advance depends on the Fed staying on hold.
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DDR4 contract prices rose 4% in September to a record $26 after a 14% gain in July, while MLC NAND rose 0.44%. Analysts tie Micron's shrinking earnings beats to multi-year supply deals, so the peak may show up in results before it shows up in contract prices.
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Micron's latest guidance says memory and storage supply will be much tighter in 2027 and 2028 than in 2026. Teams buying hardware for those years should plan without relief, since the company says it cannot see when supply and demand will balance again.
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Micron's fiscal fourth-quarter revenue reached $54.23 billion, up from $11.32 billion a year earlier, on demand for memory in AI data centers. Guidance of about $61.5 billion for the next quarter makes memory pricing a cost that teams building AI hardware should plan for through 2027.
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Bitcoin gave back much of a softer-PCE jump to $85,500 and traded near $83,700 with the 10-year Treasury yield around 5.28%. Stock futures rose under that same yield, so the long-term holder supply Glassnode counts at $84,000 to $85,000 is the likelier ceiling.
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Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra expects memory supply to be much tighter in 2027 and 2028 than in 2026. With most of Micron's 2027 output already committed, buyers should budget for high memory prices through 2028.
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Micron's new lawsuit says YMTC built its patents on Micron know-how, and it names eight former Micron engineers who became inventors on them. If a court accepts that, YMTC's infringement suits against Micron turn first on who owns the patents.
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KOSPI rose 1.95% to 6,971.35 on October 1 as Korea's September chip exports hit a record $60.3 billion, reversing a yield-driven early dip. The session shows chip news can beat US rate pressure for a day. How long it can keep doing so depends on how long the memory shortage lasts.
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Micron forecast $61.5 billion in quarterly revenue after sales rose 379% to $54.23 billion as AI buyers took every memory chip it could make. Anyone budgeting servers or laptops for next year has good reason to price memory at today's rates until new factories add supply.
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Micron's multiyear contracts now cover more than 35% of its projected revenue through 2030, up from about 25% a quarter earlier. Buyers outside those deals compete for memory that Micron, Samsung and SK hynix are assigning years ahead.
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The toolmaker will spend more than $3 billion over five years to push experiment capacity past 1.5 million runs a year. Its named customers are the three largest memory makers.
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A 257% revenue surge met a 10% selldown. A multiple that low is a forecast that earnings fall, not a discount sitting around waiting to be collected.
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Contract assemblers have warned of increases above 15% on Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell systems shipping from early next year. Every AI capacity budget written before that is now short.
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The board approved up to 125 trillion won for this year, but three quarters of a three-year program lands in one payment. The "megacycle" that follows is a forecast, not a policy.
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The Section 1260H label leaves American firms free to buy CXMT chips, so what the lawsuit really contests is the political cost to customers like Apple, at a moment when the big three hold 90% of DRAM revenue.
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Institutions net-bought 4.71 trillion won of KOSPI shares in the six sessions before Chuseok, 59% of it in Samsung Electronics. Retail and foreign holders sold into the 6.85% rise, so Samsung's preliminary results now test whether a bet that narrow holds the index above 7,000.
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