The memory chip crunch is paying off for this U.S. company
Revenue quadrupled to $41.45 billion compared with the same period a year ago. The company's profit, meanwhile, rose from $1.88 billion to an incredible $28.2 billion year-over-year.
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The memory chip crunch is paying off for this U.S. company
The AI boom has fueled dozens of new startups and minted a new class of billionaires. It has also produced a serious shortage of memory chips β a critical component for compute-hungry AI models β which some predict could persist through 2027.
This era of RAMageddon isnβt just a corporate problem. As demand spikes and squeezes supply, prices are rising and trickling down to consumers. Apple CEO Tim Cook warned just a week ago that price increases for its products are unavoidable.
But amid this Mad Max-esque fight for memory chips, some companies are coming out ahead. Micron, the largest U.S. computer-memory chip maker β with a market cap of $1.2 trillion β is one of them. That hasnβt always been the case. The companyβs shares were trading around $83 in early 2024 (with a market cap of about $91 billion) and closed today at $1,048.51.
The company reported third-quarter earnings after markets closed Wednesday, and the results sent shares soaring more than 13%. Revenue quadrupled to $41.45 billion compared with the same period a year ago. The companyβs profit, meanwhile, rose from $1.88 billion to an incredible $28.2 billion year-over-year.
The Idaho-based company also gave investors a positive outlook, forecasting fourth-quarter revenue of between $49 billion and $51 billion.
The strong results arrive the same week Micron inked a deal to supply AI lab Anthropic with memory and storage chips. Micron also disclosed that it participated in Anthropicβs Series H funding round, though it didnβt disclose how much it invested.
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