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45,000 workers threaten a strike over memory engineer pay
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Kioxia and Dell packed 9.8 petabytes of flash into a single server while the memory shortage grew acute enough that Samsung wants to pay memory engineers at least six times its logic staff, prompting over 45,000 workers to threaten the largest strike in company history.
Reported metric: 9.8 PB / 45,000 workers
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