AI-driven demand is tightening the global memory market just as China's leading DRAM producer, ChangXin Memory Technologies, or CXMT, accelerates capacity expansion after a record IPO.
China's blistering pace of new-car launches — expected to average four new vehicles a day in the first half of 2026 — is shifting from a market-winning tactic to a key driver of industry reshuffling and shakeouts, intensifying cutthroat competition in the auto market.
AI spending is broadening the memory upcycle beyond high-bandwidth memory, lifting prices for conventional DRAM, NAND flash and enterprise SSDs while reshaping earnings at SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics.
Anthropic has asked SK Hynix to help supply chips for its own in-house AI chip production, SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won said. He made the remarks at a recent AI summit in San Francisco, where he also disclosed that South Korea's three new investment plans in semiconductor expansion, AI data centers and physical AI would total more than US$3 trillion.
Moonshot AI officially released the model weights for its Kimi K3 large language model on July 27, allowing developers to download, fine-tune, and deploy it.
