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The AI snack attack
Ross Gerber’s thesis is refreshingly simple: if you want robots, robot cars, and all the AI toys Wall Street keeps obsessing over, you need a whole lot more chips. And right now, the industry doesn’t have enough. That matters because memory prices are rising while companies like Micron sit right in the blast radius of the shortage.
Why Micron keeps popping up
Gerber singled out Micron as still looking undervalued, which is code for: the market may not be fully pricing in how long this AI memory cycle can run. He pointed to AI adoption as already mainstream, saying it makes him “10x more efficient” at work — the kind of quote that reads like a TED Talk but lands like a supply-chain warning for investors.
The bottleneck isn’t going away soon
The article also stacks up the industry drumbeat:
- Reuters says SK Hynix expects the tightest memory shortage in 2027
- UBS sees supply staying below demand until at least Q2 2028
- Samsung says the squeeze could stretch through 2028
That’s a long time in chip years. And when factories shift capacity toward high-margin AI memory, the everyday stuff — phones, cars, gadgets, the whole consumer-tech buffet — can get pricier too.
Big picture
This isn’t just another “AI is hot” story. It’s a reminder that the AI buildout has a physical bill attached, and somebody has to supply the memory, bandwidth, and silicon to pay it. If Gerber’s right, the market may still be underestimating how sticky this demand really is.