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SK Hynix fell 10% or more and Samsung 7.4% on 13 Oct, CNBC and the Guardian report, after China's CXMT said it would ship a denser DRAM by year-end.

Microsoft unveils Maia 300 and says Maia will scale to multi-gigawatt deployments from 2027 as its main inference system. Maia 200 is in production.

Counterpoint Research says most Nvidia Rubin products will likely use 12-layer HBM4, not the rumoured eight, per Korea Herald. A forecast, not Nvidia's word.

Custom high-bandwidth memory puts a customer-designed base die under the memory stack, so the AI chip spends less of its own silicon talking to memory. What NVIDIA claims for its NVHBM, what SemiAnalysis estimates, and what is still unproven.

Samsung's third-quarter guidance points to about ₩107.4 trillion in operating profit on ₩195 trillion of sales, up from ₩12.17 trillion a year ago, with AI data-centre memory demand credited. AWS becomes a Platinum member of the Linux Foundation, with a board seat. What the numbers say and what they leave out.

Nvidia Rubin requires 288GB of RAM — 800% more than a high-end PC. As AI chips demand exponentially more memory, two Korean companies control the supply. Here is what that means.

Infineon and SOLUM MoU on HVDC for AI data centres; SOLUM shows 26 kW 800 Vdc BBU aiming >98.5% efficiency, production targeted 2027.

Arm earnings for Q2 FYE27 show record $1.44bn revenue (+27%), with licensing up 50% and data-centre royalties doubling. AGI CPU deliveries tracked for Q4.

The TeraWulf Google backstop supports debt financing tied to about $19bn of Anthropic lease commitments in Kentucky. Google is not lending the money.

AMD Q3 results show record revenue of $13.4bn, up 45%, as Data Center sales nearly doubled. AMD guides fourth-quarter revenue to about $17bn.