{"id":1016984,"date":"2026-06-26T08:18:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016984"},"modified":"2026-06-26T08:19:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:49:18","slug":"micron-joins-rivals-pitching-ai-deals-as-cure-for-memorys-boom-bust-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/26\/micron-joins-rivals-pitching-ai-deals-as-cure-for-memorys-boom-bust-cycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Micron joins rivals pitching AI deals as cure for memory&#8217;s boom-bust cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memory chipmakers have for decades been trapped in boom-bust cycles, with capacity buildouts hitting the market just as demand craters. Micron, Samsung and SK Hynix are now trying to convince investors this time is different, arguing long-term deals will keep cash flowing even if the datacenter boom bursts. <\/p>\n<p>Micron said on Wednesday customers such as Nvidia had committed $22 billion to lock in supplies of memory chips, playing up huge growth in five-year &#8220;take-or-pay&#8221; deals that require clients to either buy its chips or hand over cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memory chipmakers have for decades been trapped in boom-bust cycles, with capacity buildouts hitting the market just as demand craters. Micron, Samsung and SK Hynix are now trying to convince investors this time is different, arguing long-term deals will keep cash flowing even if the datacenter boom bursts. Micron said on Wednesday customers such as Nvidia had committed $22 billion to lock in supplies of memory chips, playing up huge growth in five-year &#8220;take-or-pay&#8221; deals that require clients to either buy its chips or hand over cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017007,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016984\/revisions\/1017007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}