Is Micron Technology Stock About to Join the Exclusive $1 Trillion Club?
Is Micron Technology Stock About to Join the Exclusive $1 Trillion Club?
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Publish Date: 2026-04-25 09:09:00
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The semiconductor industry is currently home to three companies worth $1 trillion or more:
- Nvidia (NVDA +4.32%): $4.8 trillion.
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing: $1.9 trillion.
- Broadcom: $1.9 trillion.
Nvidia designs graphics processing units (GPUs) for the data center, which are the primary chips used in artificial intelligence (AI) development. Broadcom, on the other hand, supplies an alternative called AI accelerators, which can be customized to suit specific AI workloads. Taiwan Semi is the world’s largest semiconductor fabricator, and it manufactures chips on behalf of both Nvidia and Broadcom.
But then there is Micron Technology (MU +3.03%), a leading supplier of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) for the data center, which is increasingly important in AI workloads. The company is valued at just $540 billion as I write this, but its stock has exploded higher by almost 600% over the past year alone. Is this momentum about to catapult Micron into the exclusive $1 trillion club?
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There is no AI without memory
GPUs deliver incredible processing speeds, but they need memory to constantly feed them fresh data. Without sufficient memory capacity, GPUs would have to pause their workloads while they wait to receive more information, resulting in very sluggish AI chatbots and agents. There is a major shortage of HBM right now primarily because of its importance to AI.
Micron’s HBM3E currently leads the industry, offering 50% more capacity while consuming 20% less energy than competing hardware. However, the company is about to start shipping commercial volumes of its HBM4 solution, which delivers 60% more capacity than HBM3E, with a 30% improvement in energy efficiency.
Nvidia plans to use Micron’s HBM4 alongside its new Vera Rubin GPUs, which will lead the industry in terms of performance when they reach customers later this year. This follows the previous successful pairing of Micron’s HBM3E solution with Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs.
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