News tagged Memory chips at DIGITIMES

NEWS TAGGED MEMORY CHIPS

Tuesday 31 March 2026

Memory shortage persists as AI-era supply-demand imbalance deepens

Global memory chip shortages have shifted industry focus from price competition to securing supply, driven by explosive demand for AI servers. Advanced production capacity is being...

Tuesday 31 March 2026

Samsung faces 17,700-worker strike as DS division talks collapse

Samsung Electronics is embroiled in a deepening labor dispute after intensive negotiations between management and workers — which began on March 26, 2026 — broke down without...

Tuesday 31 March 2026

Samsung, SK Hynix reportedly set for record profits as long-term contracts expand

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are expected to post record first-quarter profits as surging artificial intelligence demand drives memory prices higher, with suppliers pushing to...

Monday 30 March 2026

Kioxia outlines supply strategy, stresses new 2027 capacity won't disrupt NAND market balance

As generative AI (GenAI) shifts from large-model training to large-scale inference, Japanese NAND giant Kioxia forecasts continued price increases for NAND and SSD products. Despite...

Monday 30 March 2026

Samsung reportedly shifts Xi'an plant to 236-layer NAND

Samsung Electronics has reportedly begun mass production of 236-layer NAND flash at its Xi'an plant in China, marking a key step in...

Monday 30 March 2026

Sony raises PlayStation 5 prices amid memory costs spike

Sony Group's gaming subsidiary, Sony Interactive Entertainment, announced on March 27 that it would raise the global retail price of its flagship home console, the PlayStation 5, effective...

Monday 30 March 2026

AI-driven memory market set to top US$600 billion on rising storage demand

The global semiconductor memory market is expected to surpass US$600 billion by 2026, as artificial intelligence accelerates a shift toward high-performance storage, according to industry...

Monday 30 March 2026

Weekly news roundup: AI, supply chains, new entrants intensify global chip race

Below are the most-read DIGITIMES Asia stories from the week of March 23-27, 2026:

Monday 30 March 2026

AI compression won't ease memory crunch, NAND shortage set to persist

AI-driven demand is tightening global memory supply, pushing NAND flash and server DRAM into shortages, price hikes, and capacity constraints. Server memory demand is expected to grow...

Monday 30 March 2026

DRAM scaling hits limits as next-generation memory faces delays

The global DRAM industry is approaching a structural inflection point, as traditional scaling methods struggle to deliver the performance...

Sunday 29 March 2026

Samsung's 2026 strike poses bigger challenges despite economic shift and tripled scale

Samsung Electronics is facing a looming labor strike in May as its memory and foundry businesses take off, marking a more complex challenge than the initial 2024 walkout. The upcoming...

Sunday 29 March 2026

Innodisk says AI success depends on software-hardware integration, signaling shifts for edge and industry deployments

Innodisk told attendees at the 2026 AI EXPO that effective AI deployment requires more than raw computing power; it depends on tight integration between software and hardware, and...

Sunday 29 March 2026

Adata invests US$3 million in KonstTech to boost AI computing infrastructure

Amid the rapid development of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and large language models (LLM), global demand for high-performance computing (HPC) continues to rise. Memory...

Sunday 29 March 2026

AI demand leaves memory industry's commodity model intact

espite a surge in demand driven by generative artificial intelligence, the fundamental economics of the memory industry remain largely...

Sunday 29 March 2026

AMD, Meta reportedly audit Samsung HBM4 lines as supply shifts from pledges to validation

Samsung Electronics' next-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM4) program is entering a customer validation phase, according to...

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