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The biggest foreign listing in the history of the US stock market this week was not a chip designer or an AI lab. It was the Korean company that makes the memory those chips can't run without, SK Hynix raised $26.5 billion on Nasdaq, and the market priced the scarcest input in AI

3 min•12 juli 2026

SK Hynix raised $26.5 billion on Nasdaq, the largest foreign IPO in US history, topping Alibaba's 2014 record, priced at $149 a share and more than seven times oversubscribed, and was immediately pressed by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to build US fabs. It is the clearest market sign yet of the week's thesis: value has slid off the commoditized model into the scarce inputs beside it, and memory (SK Hynix supplies ~58% of the HBM feeding Nvidia's GPUs) is the scarcest. Plus Anthropic's "global workspace" interpretability research, Beijing forcing Meta to unwind its Manus deal, a memristor in-memory chip, and Sequoia's $3 trillion question.

The Call: Within the next six months, at least one hyperscaler or frontier lab names memory supply — HBM or DRAM specifically, not GPUs and not power — as the concrete bottleneck that slipped a buildout, capacity target, or product timeline, on the record in an earnings call or filing. Memory stops being the quiet input and becomes the stated constraint. Settles by January 10, 2027.

00:00:00 · The Brief
00:00:14 · The Big Story
00:01:06 · Compute
00:01:38 · AI & Models
00:02:02 · The Tape
00:02:35 · The Call

Cut from 9 stories across 300+ curated sources. Read the edition with full transcript at nextbig.dev/daily/2026-07-10

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