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Nate Peterson of the Schwab Network lays out a crisp, tangible risk: improvements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) model compression could shrink how much DRAM and NAND each server needs, and that would rearrange the memory market’s demand picture. Micron’s (MU) performance becomes the industry thermometer because its earnings and inventory moves set pricing expectations for suppliers. Apple’s (AAPL) lab partnerships are not hypothetical tinkering; they are a plausible pathway for reduced memory intensity. For investors, this video ties advanced AI research to real hardware dollars.