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A country answers the memory crunch with a $585B semiconductor megacomplex

development2026-06-29

Claim

South Korea is building a $585 billion semiconductor megacomplex as Ming-Chi Kuo said the memory gap will widen through 2027 while data centers devour consumer supply, the reason Apple is lobbying to keep China's CXMT off the Entity List.

Reported metric: $585B

Reporting date: 2026-06-29 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to June 29, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Apple

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A device maker raises prices for the first time over memory costs

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A country answers the memory crunch with a $585B semiconductor megacomplex
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Reporting date: 2026-06-29
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-06-29-a-five-hundred-eighty-five-billion-semiconductor-complex
Claim: South Korea is building a $585 billion semiconductor megacomplex as Ming-Chi Kuo said the memory gap will widen through 2027 while data centers devour consumer supply, the reason Apple is lobbying to keep China's CXMT off the Entity List.
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- Welcome to June 29, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-june-29-2026
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