Retail traders pile into memory chipmakers as AI boom squeezes supplies, lifts prices [Yahoo! Finance]
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2025's strong momentum on expectations ?that booming artificial intelligence infrastructure demand will tighten supply and lift prices. An acute ?global shortage of memory chips is forcing AI and consumer-electronics companies to fight for dwindling supplies, which is ?expected to support a multi-year backlog for memory chip makers. Samsung's co-CEO TM Roh described the memory chip shortage as "unprecedented" in an interview with Reuters earlier this month, echoing rivals who have warned that constraints could persist for months, if not years, as the AI infrastructure race continues to ?hog supplies. Data storage device maker SanDisk, ?whose shares have soared about 65% so far in 2026, saw more than $7.1 million in retail inflows on Monday alone, the biggest one-day ?move on record, according to data from Vanda Research. Western Digital has seen nearly $10 million in inflows in the first two weeks of January, putting it on course for the strongest monthly showing since ?Octobe
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- 12/22/25 - Form 4
- 12/22/25 - Form 4
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