SanDisk's multi-year supply agreement with Meta re-rates flash storage from a generic commodity to a strategic AI infrastructure input.
Chinese memory suppliers capturing 13% of the market will flood the industry with cheap supply and obliterate margins for Western Digital's SanDisk unit.
AI storage demand for training datasets and model checkpoints lifts HDD makers; Western Digital named in the Memory layer of the supply chain map
AI data center storage demand drives HDD supercycle, with Western Digital as the pure-play hard disk drive beneficiary
AI buildout starves mature-node memory, NOR Flash and SLC NAND prices keep ripping higher.
Memory makers locked into 18 months of high prices as HBM demand explodes and crowds out other DRAM