The ‘crazy’ market for memory chips | FT #shorts

Part of the chip market has been going bananas. Prices for memory chips – used in their multi-millions by data centres – have rocketed, as US tech companies lock in massive orders.⁠

That’s bad news for consumers facing more expensive electronic devices. But how will the chip squeeze end? And, as memory chips become a strategic commodity, how are the US and China looking to secure supply?⁠

Host Soumaya Keynes is joined by Dan Kim, chief strategy officer at TechInsights and former chief economist at the CHIPS Program Office at the US Department of Commerce.⁠

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