Overview
- Policy comments by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Monday discouraged U.S. firms from buying memory from Chinese makers and reportedly included a warning to Apple about talks with CXMT, giving domestic suppliers an immediate lift.
- SanDisk’s August 13 investor day projected mid‑to‑high‑teens annual revenue growth into 2028–2030 and high gross‑margin targets, which revived confidence across NAND and SSD-focused names.
- Micron backed the rally by reaffirming tight DRAM and NAND supply, raising planned U.S. investment to about $250 billion through 2035 and reporting extraordinary fiscal Q3 results that reflect heavy HBM demand.
- Stocks jumped: Micron crossed the $1,000 mark in premarket trading on Monday and SanDisk and other memory and storage names surged after analyst upgrades and hedge‑fund repositioning.
- Major risks remain: faster Chinese capacity growth (notably CXMT), the industry’s historical boom‑and‑bust pattern, and pockets of profit‑taking mean the outlook depends on future hyperscaler capex, pricing and actual wafer capacity additions.