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Memory stocks softened this week, with Micron among the S&P 500 laggards, even as Meta Platforms said it will sell excess data-center compute and Palantir ripped higher after a partnership with Nvidia. Those three moves compress a clean narrative: AI infrastructure names are being rewarded for scalable compute and platform leverage, while commodity memory names face more scrutiny. For investors this is not just noise, it is a live example of how capital is reallocating between durable software-enabled profits and cyclical hardware demand.