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SK hynix's Solidigm is adding a contract SSD site in Taiwan, home of the firms that ship over 90% of AI servers, with drives delivered from December. Using a contractor lets it sell into NAND prices eight times last year's without putting fab money on the island.
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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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Samsung added $100 to most Galaxy S26 phones and $200 to the 1TB Ultra in the US, the second rise this year for the base S26 and S26 Plus. For teams planning 2027 phone refreshes, the storage tier on each order now moves the price more than it did in the spring.
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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 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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Intel has won a U.S. patent for RGB MicroLED dies embedded in glass and wired through through-glass vias, aimed at diagnostics and chip lighting. Tom's Hardware sees a possible second route to co-packaged optics beside AUO's 10-metre MicroLED links, though the patent claims no optical interconnect.
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TrendForce projects 490.7 GW of data center power demand by 2030 against 222.6 GW of available grid capacity, a shortfall of about 268 GW. On the forecaster's own numbers, grids would carry about 45% of the load cloud providers are spending to build.
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Washington swapped a ban for case-by-case licenses. Bernstein expects Nvidia's China AI chip share to fall to about 8% in 2026, and buyers say domestic parts will take 46% of accelerator budgets.
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The iPhone Duo starts at $1,999 for 256GB and runs to $3,199 for 2TB, making it the most expensive iPhone at launch, and it ships on October 23 into a category Samsung has led since 2019.
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Nvidia has certified more than 30 cooling units under its DSX Ready program, and only five of them handle 2.5 megawatts. LG Electronics now owns one of the five, and the orders remain Nvidia's to place.
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Counterpoint puts TSMC at 73% of second-quarter foundry revenue and Samsung Foundry at 5.9%. Because that share is weighted by leading-edge prices, it measures the scarcity of advanced capacity as much as the volume of it.
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The parts that hold boot code in routers, cars and factory equipment are caught in the AI memory crunch. The fabs that make them have a straightforward financial reason to keep cutting that capacity.
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Lip-Bu Tan told an AI infrastructure forum in Santa Clara that memory supply is delaying projects and making parts hard to secure for cheaper devices; the price multiple reported alongside him is harder to use.
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The pull-forward at Samsung's Texas fab is sourced to unnamed industry people; the dated company statements are an April equipment ceremony and a July tape-out. TrendForce puts Samsung 0.5 point ahead of SMIC in second-quarter foundry share.
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The Dimensity 9600 Pro is MediaTek's first processor on TSMC's 2nm process, and the case for taking premium handset share from Qualcomm rests on a single prompt-processing figure.
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The three-year treasury yield closed at 4.014% and WTI at $102.48, the KOSPI gave up the 7,000 level, and the money leaving Korea's safest funds landed in brokerage accounts with margin debt already at 32.36 trillion won.
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ChangXin's second-quarter margin on commodity DDR5 came in above both Korean makers, in a Nihon Keizai Shimbun analysis, a year after the Chinese firm was losing money on the same product. The price behind it was set by SK hynix and Samsung.
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The A20 Pro's 2nm debut comes with its Arizona volume unnamed and its node a step behind what Qualcomm and MediaTek are expected to use, while the one cost Apple has actually priced into the sticker is memory.
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TrendForce still has DRAM contract prices climbing 13% to 18% this quarter while supplier inventories sit at historic lows, which makes the slowdown a limit on what PC and phone buyers can pay rather than relief for anyone's hardware budget.
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Huawei's own paper puts transistor density up 53.5%, and TrendForce's relay of it does check out, but the number with money attached is Bernstein's call that Nvidia's China share falls from about 40% to 8% next year.
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