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#MicronRevenueJumps346%To$41.5B 💾 Micron Revenue Jumps 346% to $41.5B — AI Memory Demand Has "No Line of Sight" to Supply Peak While Korea's sidecar triggered panic and whales bled at $59K, Micron dropped its Q3 FY2026 earnings — and the numbers are staggering. $MU reported $41.5 billion in quarterly revenue , crushing the $35.7B consensus. EPS hit $25.11 vs $20.49 expected. The stock surged 16% premarket. The headline number that matters: 🔹 Revenue: $41.5B — up 346% year-over-year 🔹 Q4 guidance: ~$50B vs $43.2B estimate 🔹 HBM (high-bandwidth memory) shortage to persist "well beyond 2027" — CEO Sanjay Mehrotra The memory chip king also flagged humanoid robotics as the next demand tsunami — each robot requiring 10x more memory than a premium vehicle. But here's the catch for crypto: As James Van Straten notes, this blowout AI earnings report ultimately pulls more liquidity away from crypto . The AI capex supercycle — JPMorgan just raised its forecast to $5.5 trillion by 2030 — is the single biggest competitor for risk capital in markets today. SK Hynix (+13%) and SanDisk (+13%) rode the wave. Even AI-mining crypto stocks like IREN and CIFR popped 3%. The narrative thread: 🇰🇷 Korea sidecar → 🐋 Whale averages down at $59K → 🍏 Apple -6.1% → 💾 Micron $41.5B AI demand is exploding. Consumer prices are surging. And crypto is caught in the crossfire — squeezed between macro fear and the AI capital vacuum.