Micron Warns of 'Unprecedented' AI-Driven Memory Chip Shortage

Nvidia supplier Micron Technology said an ongoing memory chip shortage has accelerated over the past quarter and reiterated that the crunch would last beyond this year due to a surge in demand for high-end semiconductors required for AI infrastructure. “The shortage we are seeing is really unprecedented,” Micron Executive Vice President of Operations Manish Bhatia said in an interview shortly after the chipmaker held a groundbreaking ceremony for a $100 billion production site outside Syracuse, New York, on Friday, amplifying a similar forecast the company provided in December. High-bandwidth memory required to make artificial-intelligence accelerators is “consuming so much of the available capacity across the industry that it’s leaving a tremendous shortage for the conventional side of the industry, for phones or PCs,” Bhatia said.