Conventional DRAM and NAND hit record highs in July: the memory squeeze widens
Korean industry data show conventional (non-HBM) memory prices at all-time highs in July—the AI supercycle now spills into the general-purpose stack.
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Kioxia expects annual profit to multiply by 31: NAND enters the AI supercycle
Net profit Q1 up 4500%, annual projection 31x - Kioxia joins SK Hynix in the AI memory supercycle. The pinch spreads from HBM to enterprise NAND.
Jul 31, 2026 at 12:50 13 14
Korea's AIDC Alliance formalizes the AI data-center stack around 18.4 GW
MSIT and SK Telecom co-chair a 400-organization alliance built around three divisions - demand, supply, foundation - with an 18.4 GW build-out target. The Korean supercycle gets its industry body.
Jul 29, 2026 at 12:47 15 16
SK Hynix eyes record Q2 profit on AI memory boom - the memory cycle enters its blow-off top
SK Hynix is guiding to a record Q2 profit driven by AI memory demand. The Korean memory oligopolist is now the cleanest single proxy on HBM pricing power.
Jul 27, 2026 at 10:17 10 11
CXMT surges 500% on debut, tops Intel's market cap - Chinese memory reprices at cycle peak
Chinese memory maker CXMT jumped 471-500% on its Shanghai listing and - for a moment - its market cap surpassed Intel's. The market's message: HBM/DRAM is where the AI dollars land next.
Jul 27, 2026 at 10:16 6 6
Nvidia takes 4.5% of Naver for $1B - Korea's AI supercycle hits the equity book
Naver shares jumped 10% after Nvidia disclosed a $1 billion equity investment - a 4.5% stake priced at 204,500 won per share. The AI supercycle now owns a seat on Korea's largest internet company.
Jul 27, 2026 at 10:16 10 10
Korea-US $950B: the AI supercycle signs its most political contract yet
Three days of meetings in Seoul and San Francisco result in a Korea-US package valued by ETNews at ~$950B. The `korea-ai-supercycle` thread moves from signal to lock.
Jul 26, 2026 at 18:40 14 11
Anthropic ships Claude Opus 5: the Fable 5 arc closes at roughly half the price
Anthropic officializes Claude Opus 5, the culmination of the "Fable 5" cycle - announced capacity nearly equivalent for a price halved. The battle shifts to pricing.
Jul 26, 2026 at 18:36 6 8
Nvidia's Korea day: $500B SK partnership, $10B into Naver - the AI capex supercycle switches continents
In one day, Huang announces a $500B partnership with SK Group, Nvidia and Brookfield commit $10B to Naver ($1B specifically to a Naver AI data center), and Lee sits with Altman and Huang. Korea is becoming a second pillar of the AI capex supercycle.
Jul 25, 2026 at 10:27 14 19
Paytm: +45% in UPI value in Q1, AI + product overhaul pay off
Paytm emerges from a tough cycle by showing that the AI-product duo moves the hardest metric to move - the value of transactions.
Jul 24, 2026 at 09:33 14 9
Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper and shorter - and Gemini 4 gets a tease while 3.5 Pro stays late
Google publishes three new Gemini models with a focus on "fewer output tokens, cheaper", tests Gemini 4 in the waiting room - and leaves Gemini 3.5 Pro at the starting line.
Jul 22, 2026 at 12:41 16 8
Netflix pays $587M for InterPositive: AI enters the creative stack
Netflix paid $587M to acquire the AI startup InterPositive. A clear signal about the place of AI in the next Hollywood cost cycle.
Jul 20, 2026 at 11:40 9 12