
The memory trade is not the next leg of AI by default
Investors are rushing into memory as the obvious follow-on to the AI trade, but that shortcut ignores what memory has always been: a cyclical business with brutal pricing swings and limited differentiation. That matters now because semis just suffered their sharpest weekly drawdown in over a year, and the search for the next AI winner is colliding with stretched expectations in **MU**, **SNDK**, and **WDC**.



