September Market Recap & Micron’s AI Boom
THE SO WHAT
Micron’s outperformance on AI memory demand reinforces that the picks-and-shovels trade is still where a lot of the cash is pooling. If you’re building in AI, track how quickly memory and storage pricing move — it will quietly rewrite your unit economics and model-size choices.
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