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Samsung is sounding the alarm on memory prices, and the timing is hard to ignore. The company told analysts this week that the global RAM shortage will stretch all the way to twenty twenty eight, with twenty twenty seven expected to be the worst year yet. Meanwhile Samsung just posted its third straight record quarter, pulling in over one hundred seventy one trillion won in revenue with a fifty two percent operating margin. The company is locking sixty to seventy percent of its production capacity into five-year supply deals with price floors — which means if you're building anything that needs memory, plan ahead and budget up.
Switching to Europe, Disney Plus subscribers there had a rough week, losing access to four K streaming entirely due to what the company described as a technical and licensing issue. The good news is four K is back for most affected customers. The not so good news is HDR remains offline, and some devices are reportedly having trouble with the restored stream. Disney Plus says it's working on HDR and is offering partial refunds to anyone who asks.
And in New York, Micron's ambitious chip manufacturing project in Clay is facing fresh legal trouble. A new lawsuit alleges that approved wastewater and air permits are invalid and that so-called forever chemicals will flow into the Oneida River. It's the second suit from the same coalition this year, and it signals that America's domestic chip ambitions still have a complicated road ahead.
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