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Thursday 1 October 2026
Micron hikes 2027 HBM prices after missing 2026 memory surge on fixed contracts
Micron Technology has sharply raised 2027 prices for high-bandwidth memory (HBM), the stacked DRAM packaged with AI accelerators. The increase comes after a year in which fixed contract...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Applied Materials' EPIC Center adds Kioxia for AI memory, 3D stacking push
Applied Materials announced that Kioxia will join its Equipment and Process Innovation and Commercialization (EPIC) Center in Silicon Valley, California. The two companies will collaborate...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Micron sees no end to the memory shortage, even after new fabs open in 2028
Micron told investors on September 30 that it cannot say when memory supply will catch up with demand. It expects the shortage to get worse over the next two years, even though additional...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Applied Materials and Kioxia team up on AI-era memory tech
Applied Materials and Kioxia are joining forces at a Silicon Valley research hub to develop next-generation memory technologies that could shape AI systems used worldwide. The collaboration...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Memory shortages deepen as AI demand keeps server prices climbing
The memory market is entering the fourth quarter of 2026 with a widening split between weak consumer demand and intense server buying, underscoring how artificial intelligence workloads...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Micron's record quarter rests on pricing power as customers lock in 2027 supply
Micron Technology's fiscal fourth quarter showed a memory maker whose growth now comes mainly from price rather than volume, with customers committing cash years in advance to secure...
Thursday 1 October 2026
Samsung Foundry gets boost from HBM4 as 2nm push continues
Samsung Electronics' HBM4 ramp is giving its foundry business a timely boost, as rising demand for the memory product translates into more work for the company's 4nm logic lines.
Thursday 1 October 2026
DIGITIMES Insight: Agentic AI shifts inference bottleneck to token control and task quality
DIGITIMES Intelligence observes that AI applications are moving through a clear progression: from early classification AI focused on feature recognition, to generative AI capable of...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
'I tell myself every day it'll ease': Phison CEO sees years of memory shortage
Phison Electronics CEO Pua Khein-Seng says he tells himself every day that the memory shortage will ease tomorrow. In reality, he says, AI-driven demand has opened a gap between memory...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Apple A20 Pro ditches PoP memory packaging for WMCM
Apple's A20 Pro chip has dropped traditional package-on-package (PoP) packaging in favor of Wafer-Level Multi-Chip Module (WMCM), with memory and processor dies laid out side by side...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Netlist challenges Micron, Nvidia, Broadcom, Google over alleged HBM patent use
Netlist has begun legal proceedings against Micron and downstream customers Nvidia, Broadcom, and Google to stop them from allegedly using the company's patented high-bandwidth memory...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
SK Hynix resumes DDR4, DDR5 packaging orders with Winpac
SK Hynix has resumed outsourcing DRAM packaging to South Korean outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) provider Winpac, reviving a supplier relationship that ended in 2023...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Column: Memory and logic collide as AI shifts the balance
As HBM approaches half the cost of a GPU-HBM CoWoS package, can memory still be viewed as merely a passive component of AI computing? The answer goes back to the "memory wall," a challenge...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Commentary: What risks does China's DRAM capacity face amid tightening market?
China's continued expansion of DRAM capacity has raised a key question for the global memory market: will supply and demand flip?
Wednesday 30 September 2026
CXMT's US$5.2 billion buildout deepens China's push for domestic DRAM equipment
China's largest dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) maker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is accelerating a CNY34.9 billion (US$5.2 billion) expansion aimed at chipmaking equipment,...