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A memory maker commits $720 billion and calls demand a war

development2026-08-13

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SK Hynix is pouring $720 billion into the world's largest memory buildout with fifty-story fabs and a chairman who calls demand a war, as enterprise SSDs reached 48% of NAND shipments and YMTC cracked the top three.

Reported metric: $720B

Reporting date: 2026-08-13 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to August 13, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Memory prices roughly quadruple in a year

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A memory maker commits $720 billion and calls demand a war
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Reporting date: 2026-08-13
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-08-13-seven-hundred-twenty-billion-for-the-largest-memory-buildout
Claim: SK Hynix is pouring $720 billion into the world's largest memory buildout with fifty-story fabs and a chairman who calls demand a war, as enterprise SSDs reached 48% of NAND shipments and YMTC cracked the top three.
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- Welcome to August 13, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-august-13-2026
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