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High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) is a DRAM type using vertically stacked chips for much higher data throughput, used in AI accelerators and GPUs.
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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Samsung and SK Hynix are committing about $518 billion to new Gwangju memory fabs, the largest line in South Korea's roughly $900 billion decade plan. Company balance sheets supply much of that capital, so the two chipmakers will set how fast the new supply actually arrives.
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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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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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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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Goldman Sachs expects the five biggest US hyperscalers to spend about $1.2 trillion on AI infrastructure in 2027, 50% more than in 2026. The forecast is $100 billion above consensus, and the bank lists power, labor and memory chips as the limits on building it.
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Samsung has more than doubled its high-bandwidth memory share in a year, eating into SK Hynix's lead, Rest of World reports. For anyone buying AI capacity, the contest could affect how fast and how cheaply new clusters arrive.
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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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Reuters says Samsung lifted SF4, SF5 and 8nm prices in July as TSMC's advanced nodes filled up, with Chinese customers paying the most. Analysts now see the loss-making foundry breaking even.
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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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The first full-year guide in Nvidia's history sits about 18% above where consensus dollars were, not double them, and the stated reason for issuing it is that high-bandwidth memory is already constrained.
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Reuters reports exploratory talks over leasing part of Intel's Ohio complex or building a joint venture with cloud buyers who want guaranteed memory. Intel says the site comes online between 2030 and 2031.
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Yuanta Securities Korea raised its Samsung Electronics target 18.9% to 630,000 won, about 124% above the 281,500 won quote, on an argument that HBM is eating into general-purpose DRAM capacity and pushing the end of the supply squeeze further out.
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Kwak Noh-jung told a Santa Clara forum that new production bases will defend SK hynix's memory lead. The four named sites add to 1,105.4 trillion won. Indiana's fab is 5.4 trillion of that, and Japan is still under consideration.
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Korea's customs print for the first ten days of September puts chips at $16.5bn of $35bn in exports, up 270.1% on the year, and the implied surplus across the full twenty days runs near a third of everything the country shipped.
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Samsung's outsourced cleaning of the glass supports used to thin HBM wafers goes from 10,000 sheets a month last year to 50,000 next year, a step that tracks the HBM4-series mix shift more closely than it tracks total wafer starts.
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One of the two scenarios reported for SK Hynix's first US memory wafers is a venture with Intel and major cloud companies. The site those wafers would come from is not due for completion until 2030 and 2031.
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The Bank of Korea's September policy report puts the two chipmakers at nearly half the Kospi's market value. It warns that daily rebalancing in leveraged products can carry price moves between Hong Kong and Seoul.
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SK hynix's semiannual filing shows a second unnamed customer buying within 421 billion won of Nvidia. The HBM buyer base is widening, not consolidating.
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