At SEMICON Taiwan 2026, Micron Technology's President and CTO Scott DeBoer directly rebutted the idea that software-side optimizations can reduce AI hardware demand, stating global AI memory capacity is 'massively undersupplied' and will remain so for years without large-scale manufacturing investment. He highlighted advanced packaging (hybrid copper-to-copper bonding) as an acute bottleneck and announced Micron's $250 billion global investment plan over the next decade, including a $10 billion research lab. For a financial institution, this indicates that a major memory supplier sees persistent structural hardware constraints and is committing massive capex, which supports the thesis that supply-side bottlenecks in memory and packaging are not being resolved by efficiency gains alone.
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