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title: "How surging demand from AI hyperscalers has quintupled flash memory prices and shifted market and negotiating power from Apple to suppliers like Kioxia (Rolfe Winkler/Wall Street Journal)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/how-surging-demand-from-ai-hyperscalers-has-quintupled-flash-memory-abf3a332
published: 2026-10-29T03:55:00.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# How surging demand from AI hyperscalers has quintupled flash memory prices and shifted market and negotiating power from Apple to suppliers like Kioxia (Rolfe Winkler/Wall Street Journal)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-10-29 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/how-surging-demand-from-ai-hyperscalers-has-quintupled-flash-memory-abf3a332

Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal : How surging demand from AI hyperscalers has quintupled flash memory prices and shifted market and negotiating power from Apple to suppliers like Kioxia — The iPhone maker for years bullied flash-storage makers into steep discounts—until AI hyperscalers bid up prices and gobbled up supply

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/261028/p65#a261028p65)

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