conventional
HBM
balanced
more conventional
0
1
2
3
4
HBM-heavy
HBM allocation crowds out conventional DRAM, lifts contract prices, and migrates the pricing-power bottleneck downstream
AI accelerator
pulls HBM + server
NVIDIA cadence
overlapping cycles
wafer fab
silicon wafers
HBM
DRAM
advanced packaging
HBM die stack
interposer
conventional DRAM
PC · phone · auto
scarcity
contract price
cap
branch
affordability
caps price pace
→
→
wafer fab
advanced packaging
power
bottleneck
bottleneck
bottleneck
pricing power:
advanced packaging