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Tuesday 21 July 2026
Niche demand drives SLC NAND prices up nearly tenfold, opening further gains for Taiwan suppliers
Memory price increases have begun to diverge in the second half of 2026, but persistent capacity shortfalls continue to constrain supply and sustain upward momentum in contract pri...
Tuesday 21 July 2026
Memory shortage could turn into a glut by 2028 as chipmakers expand

A powerful rally in memory-chip stocks has stalled as investors reconsider whether record spending on AI data centers could eventually...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
Samsung, SK Hynix prioritize DDR5 as margins near HBM levels

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are reportedly allocating additional or flexible DRAM production capacity to server DDR5 and other...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
Samsung could overtake SK Hynix in the HBM market by 2027
Samsung Electronics could overtake SK Hynix to lead the global high-bandwidth memory market in 2027 as shipments of HBM4 expand, according to forecasts from UBS cited by Money...
Monday 20 July 2026
HBM4 battle shifts to cooling as hybrid bonding slips
Sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM4) shipments paired with Nvidia Vera Rubin will keep rising in the second half of 2026, setting up a head-to-head fight among the three major...
Monday 20 July 2026
Samsung to cut over 800 US jobs amid market headwinds

Samsung Electronics is cutting over 800 jobs in the US from its smartphone, display, and consumer electronics business units. The division,...

Monday 20 July 2026
Memory is becoming a national security priority, SK chair warns

The global scramble for AI memory is fast becoming a matter of national economic security, with governments intervening in supply and...

Monday 20 July 2026
Commentary: China's DRAM comes of age with CXMT's IPO — but a trio of hurdles remains

CXMT's STAR Market IPO marks a coming-of-age moment for China's DRAM industry, but the listing is only the beginning. Having proved...

Monday 20 July 2026
Samsung preps multi-billion-dollar P5 orders as AI boom speeds up memory demand

Samsung Electronics' latest multi-billion-dollar equipment procurement reflects the company's accelerating investment in AI memory...

Monday 20 July 2026
Weekly news roundup: AI chip race widens across silicon photonics, HBM, memory fabs, and frontier models

AI competition is widening from chips to connectivity, memory, talent, patents, and model access,...

Monday 20 July 2026
Networking demand remains resilient, but component shortages threaten shipment schedules

AI data center expansion and high-speed network upgrades continue to support demand for networking equipment. However, as the industry...

Monday 20 July 2026
CXMT's US$4B IPO fuels DRAM capacity race toward 350,000 wafers a month

Chinese DRAM maker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is accelerating construction and technology upgrades across its manufacturing...

Monday 20 July 2026
Micron's 10-year deal with GlobalWafers signals tighter 12-inch supply

Rising demand for AI data centers and high-bandwidth memory (HBM) is pushing semiconductor competition further upstream into silicon...

Monday 20 July 2026
Hanmi Semiconductor speeds up HBM tool output and plants US flag as equipment shortage looms
South Korea's Hanmi Semiconductor is racing to expand output of the bonding equipment that global memory and foundry makers rely on to build high-bandwidth memory (HBM), warning that...
Sunday 19 July 2026
Memory must adopt foundry model to fix AI inference bottleneck, says Korean scholar

AI development is driving larger data transfers and higher GPU efficiency demands, pushing memory toward customization and prompting...