While Wall Street remains fixated on the high-bandwidth memory (HBM) boom powering Nvidia Corp.‘s (NASDAQ:NVDA) AI accelerators, China’s newest semiconductor giant is making a very different bet.
Fresh off a blockbuster IPO valuing the company at roughly $500 billion, Chinese DRAM maker CXMT Corp is scaling production of DDR5 memory—the technology used in servers powered by Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:INTC) and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD), rather than the premium HBM chips dominating the AI narrative.