SanDisk vs. Western Digital: Which Memory Storage Stock Is the Better Buy? [Globe and Mail, The (Toronto, Canada)]
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SanDisk specializes in NAND flash, a market that has more long-term growth potential than Western Digital's hard disk drives. Western Digital has higher profit margins, but the combination of SanDisk's explosive net income growth and Micron's precedent indicates that meaningful margin expansion is possible. Semiconductor chips like the ones Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) provides have been powering the expansion of artificial intelligence (AI). Without these high-powered processors, AI models like ChatGPT wouldn't exist. The companies that supply those AI processors have been compelling opportunities for years, but higher future returns may come from companies in other parts of the data center supply chain. SanDisk (NASDAQ: SNDK) and Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) create memory storage chips and other data storage hardware that are embedded within AI platforms and adjacent to them in servers. (The high-end processors that enable AI workloads have a bunch of smaller components inside them
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