China Begins Flooding The Market With DRAM And NAND Memory Chips
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China is aggressively flooding global markets with DRAM and NAND chips, threatening to compress memory pricing and margin cycles that have been a key earnings driver for the sector. The oversupply pressure puts equipment makers like KLAC and LRCX — which benefit from capex spend — in a cross-current: Chinese domestic fab buildout may sustain equipment demand short-term, but ASP erosion at memory producers eventually kills capex budgets.
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Wrong ifChina oversupply thesis is slow-moving — if AI-driven HBM capex offsets commodity DRAM weakness, WFE demand stays elevated and the short gets squeezed; today's broad market rally could extend before fundamentals reassert.
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