Memory & storage · Thesis 02 · settles Feb 1 · 97 days · rung 2/3

NAND wafer spot price, late January?

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The two sides

If no

Supply catches up

Expects new supply or cooling demand to pull memory prices back down by then.

If yes

Scarcity holds through 2027

Expects AI chip demand to keep memory scarce and prices high through early 2027.

How it settles

Yes if the average of DRAMeXchange's 512Gb TLC wafer session prices from January 25 to January 31, 2027 is 21 dollars or more. DRAMeXchange (TrendForce), wafer spot price table, as recorded by DeepStack

The exact question and the full rule

Will the 512Gb TLC NAND wafer spot price average at or above $21.00 over the trading sessions from January 25, 2027 through January 31, 2027?

Take the session average of 512Gb TLC in DRAMeXchange's wafer spot price table, in US dollars, for each trading session dated January 25, 2027 through January 31, 2027, as first recorded by DeepStack. The answer is yes if the mean of those session averages is at or above $21.00; no if it is below $21.00.

If the source is late or silent: If no session in the window is recorded by February 3, 2027, the owner reads the same table's history on TrendForce for the missing sessions; if that does not settle it, the test is inconclusive. A later correction does not change a session already recorded.

The case · 8 voices · 2 minutes
Supply catches up2 voices argue noScarcity holds through 20276 voices argue yes
Stronger if no · 2 voices

Supply catches up

Andrew WalkerMay 31

When memory and semiconductor prices rise significantly above cost due to supply constraints, economic incentives drive multiple paths to increased supply, eventually breaking the cycle and reducing margins.

Stronger if yes · 6 voices

Scarcity holds through 2027

Tae KimAug 5

The demand-supply imbalance in HBM memory creates a classical Economics 101 scenario where constrained supply meets accelerating demand. Customers requesting 5x–6x more capacity than current expansion plans can supply creates a pricing lever that…

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The thesis

Will memory makers' scarcity profits last through 2027?

Micron's revenue for the quarter ended September 3, 2026 was $54.2 billion, against $11.3 billion a year earlier. The tests read Micron's next quarter and Korea's chip exports, most of which are memory.