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Thursday 4 December 2025
Samsung reportedly wins majority of Nvidia's 2026 SOCAMM2 supply

Samsung Electronics is reportedly on track to supply more than half of Nvidia's next-generation System on CAMM (SOCAMM2) memory modules in 2026, becoming the largest contributor to the AI-server CPU ecosystem. SOCAMM — touted by Nvidia as a new high-performance DRAM standard and often described as a "second HBM" — is set to redefine how CPU-side memory is deployed inside advanced AI servers, Hankyung and ICsmart reported.

Thursday 4 December 2025
Samsung and SK Hynix align 2026 DRAM strategies
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix reportedly both plan to raise their DRAM production growth targets for 2026. Samsung is focusing on standard DRAM such as DDR5, LPDDR5X, and GDDR7, while SK Hynix intends to maintain its focus on HBM but is also looking to boost the profitability of its standard DRAM offerings.
Thursday 4 December 2025
Commentary: Micron exits consumer memory market as structural chip shortage hits
Micron has announced it will exit its Crucial consumer product business, including SSDs and memory modules, with all shipments ending by February 2026. This move amid escalating memory supply shortages signals that the chip scarcity is no longer a temporary issue but a structural challenge reshaping the entire industry.
Thursday 4 December 2025
IT panel makers lock prices as memory prices surge
IT demand has entered the fourth quarter off-season, but panel makers are coping by balancing supply and demand. AI demand has driven up prices for upstream materials such as memory, putting pressure on panel makers to hold the line on IT panel prices. This is especially true for mainstream monitor panels, whose quoted prices are already near total cost, making price locking a top priority.
Thursday 4 December 2025
Tech Forum 2026: Quanta warns power shortages may stall next server growth wave

Quanta Computer vice chairman and president C. C. Leung said on December 3 that electricity supply has become the most serious constraint for AI server manufacturing, overtaking concerns about memory shortages. Speaking at the DIGITIMES Tech Forum 2026 in Taipei, he said reliable power will remain a major hurdle for the industry through 2026 and likely beyond, even as demand for AI servers stays strong.

Thursday 4 December 2025
CXMT deepens DDR4 retrenchment; Nanya draws interest from US cloud giants
DDR4 DRAM supply remains severely constrained, with forecasts pointing to elevated pricing through the first half of 2026. Supply-chain sources say China-based CXMT will accelerate its DDR4 retreat, cutting planned 2026 year-end capacity from 20,000 wafers a month to 10,000 as DDR5 and advanced-node migration proceed smoothly.
Thursday 4 December 2025
Transcend warns memory supply tightness to last 3-5 months amid market turmoil
Market sources indicate that memory module maker Transcend Information recently notified its customers that key suppliers SanDisk and Samsung Electronics have informed the company of a sharp reduction in chip supply. The company reported that costs had already surged by 50% to 100% the previous week, warning that severe supply-demand imbalances could persist for at least three to five months.
Thursday 4 December 2025
PC makers face 20% price hikes amid worsening memory shortage
PC manufacturers are planning significant price increases on 2026 models as an acute shortage of conventional memory chips, driven by soaring demand for artificial intelligence hardware, tightens supply and inflates component costs, according to reports by ZDNet Korea and cited by Wccftech. The shortage is pushing major PC makers such as ASUS, Acer and Lenovo toward higher 2026 pricing, with ZDNet Korea reporting industrywide plans for increases of at least 20 percent.
Thursday 4 December 2025
Micron to exit consumer business as AI reshapes global memory demand
Micron Technology has announced plans to exit its consumer business, marking one of its most significant strategic shifts in years as the company prioritizes advanced memory chips used in artificial intelligence data centers. The move underscores tightening global supply conditions and highlights how soaring demand for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) is reshaping investment priorities across the semiconductor industry.
Thursday 4 December 2025
Tech Forum 2026: Quanta flags memory shortage as top AI hardware risk for 2026
Quanta Computer vice chairman and president C.C. Leung warned on December 3, 2025, that persistent memory shortages and rising costs could become the most significant risk to the artificial intelligence hardware market in 2026, even as competition between Nvidia and custom chip developers continues to intensify.
Wednesday 3 December 2025
Samsung sixth-gen HBM reportedly cleared for production readiness, targets Nvidia supply chain
Samsung Electronics has reportedly completed the Production Readiness Approval (PRA) for its sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM), officially entering the production preparation stage, according to South Korean media outlets. The move positions the company to accelerate entry into Nvidia's supply chain following internal HBM4 certification.
Wednesday 3 December 2025
Memory spot prices surged as Samsung's RDIMM limitedly ease supply in late 4Q25
Global memory capacity remained tight with strong demand pushing DRAM and NAND flash spot prices sharply higher in November. Samsung Electronics planned to moderately release RDIMM modules mainly for server customers in the fourth quarter of 2025, slightly easing shortages but leaving many smaller buyers struggling amid soaring costs.
Tuesday 2 December 2025
US rallies allies to secure AI and mineral supply chains amid rare earth crunch
The US is moving to reinforce critical mineral and semiconductor supply chains with key allies as the West's push to expand rare earth magnet production runs into a worsening shortage of heavy rare earth elements. Officials from eight allied nations will gather at the White House on December 12, 2025, to negotiate new agreements on energy, advanced manufacturing, semiconductor production, AI infrastructure, and logistics, according to Bloomberg. The initiative seeks to limit dependence on China, which controls more than 90% of global rare earth and permanent magnet refining capacity.
Tuesday 2 December 2025
MXIC chairman wins prestigious semiconductor award, stresses product value over manufacturing
The Pan Wen Yuan Foundation announced on December 1 that MXIC chairman Miin Wu has been honored with the 19th Pan Wen Yuan Prize. The award aims to recognize lifetime achievements contributing significantly to Taiwan's technology industry. Under Wu's leadership, MXIC became one of Taiwan's earliest memory manufacturers to promote proprietary branded products and technology, standing out as a rare integrated device manufacturer (IDM) in Taiwan with capabilities spanning IC design, production, packaging, testing, and marketing.
Tuesday 2 December 2025
Samsung, SK Hynix set profit-first DRAM regime
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, which control about 70% of the global DRAM market, signalled in recent IR meetings with global investment banks that they will not pursue aggressive supply expansion. Their cautious stance comes as DRAM shortages widen from servers to PCs and smartphones.
Tuesday 2 December 2025
Samsung Electronics to maintain quarterly DRAM supply negotiations amid rising memory costs
Samsung Electronics' Device Solutions (DS) division will continue negotiating mobile DRAM supplies on a quarterly basis with its Mobile eXperience (MX) division, despite ongoing memory shortages and surging prices, according to reports from the Seoul Economic Daily and Nate. This approach aims to enhance DS's profitability but increases cost pressures on the MX division ahead of the Galaxy S26 series launch.
Tuesday 2 December 2025
Samsung, SK Hynix lead HBM market, capitalize on Google's TPU push
Google's expanding investment in custom AI accelerators is reshaping the high-bandwidth memory market and lifting Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix as demand for tensor processing unit-based systems rises in data centers.
Tuesday 2 December 2025
AI drives Samsung's 2026 operating profit toward KRW100T
Artificial intelligence (AI) is fueling a DRAM supercycle, prompting South Korean securities firms to continuously raise their forecasts for Samsung Electronics' operating profit in 2026. Some projections now approach KRW90-100 trillion (approx. US$61.3-68.1 billion).
Tuesday 2 December 2025
Samsung restructures research and memory teams to reclaim HBM market share
Samsung Electronics is undertaking one of its most significant internal restructurings in years as the company pushes to strengthen its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities and regain momentum in the fast-growing HBM memory market. The overhaul includes converting its flagship research arm, the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, into a lab-based system and consolidating memory development teams under a new organization led by senior engineering executives.
Monday 1 December 2025
Micron reportedly plans new Hiroshima fab to reduce reliance on Taiwan production
Micron Technology is reportedly planning to invest JPY1.5 trillion(US$9.6 billion) to establish a new high-bandwidth memory (HBM) manufacturing facility at its Hiroshima campus, according to Nikkei. The initiative aims to increase production of advanced chips designed for artificial intelligence (AI) systems and to lessen the company's dependence on Taiwan amid growing concerns over global supply chain vulnerabilities.
Monday 1 December 2025
CXMT narrows DRAM gap; market impact may be smaller than expected?
China's memory manufacturer CXMT, backed by government support, shifted to high-end technology development from 2025 and has introduced multiple next-generation DRAM products within a year, with performance approaching Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix.
Monday 1 December 2025
Samsung and SK Hynix to unveil next-gen memory tech at ISSCC 2026
At the upcoming International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) 2026 in February, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are set to unveil significant advances in high-performance memory. Samsung plans to showcase a redesigned 6th-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM4) delivering 3.3TB/s of bandwidth, while SK Hynix will introduce its latest high-speed LPDDR6 and GDDR7 products.
Monday 1 December 2025
December memory prices surge as the real crunch lies ahead
Global memory supply has tightened so abruptly that December contract prices for major DRAM and NAND products have surged as much as 80 to 100 percent, according to Team Group General Manager Gerry Chen. He said the market is only entering the early phase of a multiyear shortage and that the real crunch will emerge in the first half of 2026 once distributors finish clearing inventory.
Monday 1 December 2025
Samsung's HBM3E performance leap propels it to become primary supplier of Google's Ironwood TPU
Media reports show that Google's Ironwood TPU is equipped with HBM3E from Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. According to the Korea Economic Daily, Samsung supplied over 60% of the total HBM delivered to Google via Broadcom in 2025. This was possible by a redesign of the DRAM used in HBM, which boosted HBM3E performance.
Monday 1 December 2025
TSMC reportedly set to take over base-die production in HBM4E generation

Micron said in its latest quarterly results that it will work with TSMC to produce base logic dies for both standard and custom HBM4E memory. The disclosure highlights a significant shift in how next-generation high-bandwidth memory may be built, as foundries, rather than DRAM makers, begin handling the foundational logic layer of advanced HBM stacks.