内存芯片短缺持续到2027年,美光季度营收翻四倍至414.5亿美元
美光(Micron)周三收盘后公布第三财季财报,营收同比翻四倍至414.5亿美元,利润从18.8亿美元增至282亿美元。公司预测第四财季营收介于490亿至510亿美元。美光还与AI公司Anthropic签署内存和存储芯片供应协议,并参与了Anthropic的H轮融资(未披露投资额)。AI热潮导致的内存芯片短缺预计将持续至2027年,苹果CEO库克一周前已警告产品涨价不可避免。
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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 — a critical component for compute-hungry AI models — which some predict could persist through 2027.
This era of RAMageddon isn’t 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 — with a market cap of $1.2 trillion — is one of them.
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 company’s 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 Anthropic’s Series H funding round, though it didn’t disclose how much it invested.