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Digital Camera World
Hillary K. Grigonis

Sorry, photographers: The world’s biggest chipmaker says the memory crisis is only going to get worse

Samsung EVO Select 256GB microSD card.

Samsung Electronics – the largest memory chipmaker in the world – is warning that the memory shortage driven by storage-hungry AI will likely continue to worsen into 2027.

The insight comes from Samsung’s quarterly financial results, which have the chipmaker posting an all-time high for quarterly revenue of KRW 133.9 trillion. That’s about $90 billion / £67 billion / AU$126 billion / CA$124 billion at current exchange rates.

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