Dell CEO Michael Dell just laid out the memory supply timeline — and it's not pretty.
He expects the memory crunch (DRAM/HBM) to worsen through 2027. Why? It takes roughly four years to build a new memory fab. Micron and others have factories under construction now, but those won't start producing until 2029.
Meanwhile, demand is accelerating faster than anyone expected — driven by agents and new AI workloads that consume memory differently than traditional compute.
So you have a four-year supply lag meeting exponential demand growth. That gap doesn't close quickly.
This isn't speculation. This is the CEO of one of the largest server OEMs in the world telling you exactly what he sees in the supply chain.
If you believe the AI build-out continues, memory becomes the next bottleneck. And the companies with secured supply or domestic fab capacity are the ones positioned to win.
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He expects the memory crunch (DRAM/HBM) to worsen through 2027. Why? It takes roughly four years to build a new memory fab. Micron and others have factories under construction now, but those won't start producing until 2029.
Meanwhile, demand is accelerating faster than anyone expected — driven by agents and new AI workloads that consume memory differently than traditional compute.
So you have a four-year supply lag meeting exponential demand growth. That gap doesn't close quickly.
This isn't speculation. This is the CEO of one of the largest server OEMs in the world telling you exactly what he sees in the supply chain.
If you believe the AI build-out continues, memory becomes the next bottleneck. And the companies with secured supply or domestic fab capacity are the ones positioned to win.
$MU $DELL