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Mike Sheppard

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Well, it's looking at Singapore, Ed, and this is over a 10-year period, a $24 billion investment there.

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And what they're looking at specifically is so-called NAND memory.

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And this is something that is in demand to meet the needs of artificial intelligence chips and processors more broadly.

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And it's an area of focus because for AI, the memory needs are enormous and they are not fully being met.

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Of course, Micron competes with Samsung and SK Hynix in this memory market.

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And all three companies have warned of increasingly tight supplies.

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And the supply issue also has spillover effects that it actually touches on smartphone makers and PC makers, too, because as those companies that we just mentioned,

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shift their efforts to meet the needs of the AI data centers, the areas for PCs and smartphones risk going wanting in the SSD-type memory and flash memory that is needed for those kinds of devices.

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So we're seeing that expansion by Micron.

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This just comes at less than two weeks after Micron cut the ribbon on a $100 billion plant in upstate New York, one that's been a couple of years in coming.

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So we are watching to see how much more these companies are going to be investing, not only in Asia, but also in the U.S.

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as well.

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Well, that's right.

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And I'm glad you brought that up, Carol, because we saw the news yesterday.

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We all followed it so closely on this plan by Microsoft to introduce a new generation of its Maya AI chip, the Maya 200.

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And a local business paper in South Korea, the Meili Business Newspaper, is reporting that as many as six SK Hynix HBM3E units were

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will go into each Maya processor.

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We don't know how many of these Maya 200 processors Microsoft will ultimately have produced for its needs, for its data centers, and for other customers as well.

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But the promise is big, and it signals that there could be a lot of demand for this HBM3E processor that SK Hynix has developed to meet those AI memory needs, and it could be something else.

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Now, you mentioned

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