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Memory Chip Makers Say AI Alters Boom-and-Bust Cycle

Attendees outside the Micron booth at the Semicon Japan exhibition in Tokyo.

Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg
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Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Ian King reports on the changing fortunes of the memory chip industry.

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