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Tom's Hardware September 22, 2026 By Anton Shilov positive

Memory chips are now more expensive to make than compute chips on a per-area basis — AI demand drives DRAM die value past leading-edge silicon

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DRAM makers may potentially get more money for their wafers than TSMC gets for its N3 wafers.
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