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The core driver of this round of price increases is the explosive growth in HBM demand, as AI accelerator cards such as NVIDIA's H100/H200 make heavy use of HBM, prompting Samsung and SK Hynix to redirect a significant proportion of their DRAM capacity toward HBM production.
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7/9/2026
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