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Micron Technology (MU) has found itself caught in a familiar market pattern — a knee-jerk reaction to a change in the way we think about a particular type of technology. In this case, the recent introduction of TurboQuant from Alphabet (GOOGL) — a program that promises to cut memory usage in half — is presenting AI efficiency fears.
While this may initially be seen as a negative for memory and storage-related companies as a whole, if we take a step back and think about it for a moment, I believe this is yet another example of the markets overreacting to change. One report from Bank of America analyst Vivek Arya recently aimed to ease concerns by pointing out that AI capital expenditures are actually driving memory usage, “not efficiency measures.”