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Friday 30 October 2026
Micron says 700-plus Taiwan fab workers earned five years' salary in a single year
Micron Technology paid its fiscal 2026 bonuses to Taiwan employees on October 30. The company said more than 700 production-line workers earned at least five years' worth of monthly...
Friday 30 October 2026
SK Hynix taps HBM veteran to lead new American unit
SK Hynix has appointed its AI memory development chief to lead a newly established Americas unit based in the US, putting a technology veteran closer to major US customers as the industry...
Friday 30 October 2026
China's memory module bellwethers post record profits as 3Q26 momentum fades
China's listed memory module makers, whose results offer an early read on how the global memory upcycle is reaching the country's storage supply chain, reported net profit gains of...
Friday 30 October 2026
Sandisk sees 60–90GB of NAND per CPU in AI agent workloads
Sandisk sees demand for roughly 60 to 90 gigabytes of NAND flash per CPU in certain AI inference and agent-orchestration applications, as customers rethink how they use different memory...
Friday 30 October 2026
Sandisk says customers are coming back for more NAND
Sandisk says AI infrastructure customers are returning to secure more NAND flash after underestimating their storage requirements, even as its pipeline of prospective long-term supply...
Friday 30 October 2026
HBM4 cycle faces squeeze as capacity, specs become critical
AI chipmakers' rising memory performance requirements are accelerating the shift from sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM4) to HBM4E, according to analysis of the South Korean...
Friday 30 October 2026
Beyond nanometers: AI forces Taiwan's semiconductor ecosystem to compete at system level
Taiwan's semiconductor rise was built on a powerful division of labor: world-class IC design feeding increasingly advanced foundries, supported by packaging, testing, and an unusually...
Friday 30 October 2026
Sandisk's data center expansion widens the gap with consumer storage
Sandisk's latest quarter showed enterprise storage as a stronger growth engine while its consumer business contracted. This divergence is central to interpreting the company's expansion:...
Friday 30 October 2026
Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance reportedly seek 10-year DRAM deals
Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance are reportedly seeking long-term server DRAM supply agreements with Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, with some requests extending through 2035, as...
Friday 30 October 2026
Samsung, SK Hynix say memory crunch could drag on for years despite spending surge
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix expect memory shortages to persist for years despite rising investment in chip factories, as surging AI demand and increasingly complex manufacturing...
Friday 30 October 2026
Memory price surge clouds peak season; Chinese brands' 4Q26 smartphone shipments to drop over 35%
Despite new smartphone launches from Apple, Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi, rising memory prices are weakening sales momentum and prompting Chinese smartphone brands to adjust their...
Friday 30 October 2026
Silicon Motion posts fourth straight revenue record, eyes 100% 2026 growth
Silicon Motion Technology reported third-quarter 2026 revenue of about US$560 million, marking a record high for the fourth consecutive quarter. Revenue rose 24% quarter-over-quarter...
Thursday 29 October 2026
Analysis: Samsung's record quarter came from higher prices, not more chips; expects buyers to get no relief before 2028
Samsung Electronics' third-quarter profit came almost entirely from charging more for memory chips, not from selling more of them. On its earnings call, the company also told investors...
Thursday 29 October 2026
CXMT to start HBM3E production despite low yields amid tight domestic market
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China's leading producer of DRAM memory, is reportedly planning to begin production of HBM3E, despite yields so far only reaching 20% to 30%. This...
Thursday 29 October 2026
Samsung, SK Hynix invest KRW110 trillion as memory supply boost slips to 2028
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are undertaking their largest-ever equipment investments in 2026, but the memory supply increase is not expected to materialize until 2028. By then,...