AI memory chip stocks
Memory & Storage
HBM, DRAM, NAND, hard drives
Every accelerator is bottlenecked by how fast it can be fed data. High-bandwidth memory sits next to the GPU; DRAM, flash and hard drives hold the training data and model outputs.
| Company | Ticker |
|---|---|
| Micron Technology High-bandwidth memory (HBM) for AI accelerators, plus DRAM and NAND. | MU |
| SanDisk NAND flash and enterprise SSDs; separated from Western Digital in 2025. | SNDK |
| Western Digital Hard disk drives for hyperscale data storage. | WDC |
| Seagate Technology High-capacity hard drives for cloud and AI data storage. | STX |
How memory companies earn from AI
An accelerator is only as fast as the memory feeding it. High-bandwidth memory (HBM) is stacked next to the GPU and is made by three companies worldwide, of which Micron is the only one on this list; server DRAM and data-center SSDs (Micron, SanDisk) hold the working data; hard drives (Western Digital, Seagate) hold everything else at the lowest cost per terabyte. Memory is a commodity business with a price cycle, and in 2026 the cycle has run several times above last year's levels: Micron's quarterly revenue was $41.5 billion against $9.3 billion a year earlier.
Exposure is easiest to measure at Micron and SanDisk, which report data-center business units. The two hard-drive makers sell almost entirely to cloud customers but do not separate AI from ordinary storage, so their pages rate exposure as partial: AI is a reason hyperscalers buy more drives, not a product line.
Editorial, written from the reported figures on each company page. Company names link to those pages: MU, SNDK, WDC, STX.
The numbers right now
Reported by the companies; each line links to the release or filing it comes from.
- Micron total revenue $41.46 billion, versus $9.30 billion a year earlier; data-center revenue over $25 billion; fiscal Q4 guided to $50.0 billion plus or minus $1.0 billion.Source · Fiscal Q3 2026, quarter ended May 28, 2026
- Micron HBM4 revenue already past $1 billion; data-center SSD revenue over $5 billion, more than doubling sequentially.Source · Fiscal Q3 2026, quarter ended May 28, 2026
- SanDisk datacenter revenue $2.98 billion, up 103% quarter over quarter; fiscal 2026 datacenter revenue $5.15 billion, up 437%.Source · Q4 FY2026, quarter ended July 3, 2026
- Western Digital: cloud end market 89% of fiscal 2026 revenue; 231 exabytes shipped in the fourth quarter.Source · Fiscal 2026, year ended July 3, 2026
- Seagate fiscal 2026 revenue $12.2 billion, up 34%; record free cash flow $3.1 billion.Source · Fiscal year ended July 3, 2026
What to watch in memory
- Micron's fiscal Q4 report on September 30, 2026: revenue against the $50.0 billion guide and the HBM commentary set the tone for the whole category. source
- NVIDIA's purchase commitments, which rose to $279 billion 'primarily related to procurement of memory'. That is the demand side of this category written into a supplier's filing. source
- Price: memory margins (Micron guided gross margin near 86%) are cyclical highs. The risk in this category is the cycle turning, not demand disappearing. source
Quotes
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Latest 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K filings in Memory & Storage
Source: SEC EDGAR- SNDK10-QQuarterly report2026-10-30documentfolder
- STX10-QQuarterly report2026-10-29documentfolder
- SNDK8-KEarnings release · items 2.02,8.01,9.012026-10-29documentfolder
- STX8-KCurrent report · items 5.072026-10-28documentfolder
- STX8-KEarnings release · items 2.02,7.01,9.012026-10-27documentfolder
- WDC10-QQuarterly report2026-10-23documentfolder
- WDC8-KEarnings release · items 2.02,9.012026-10-22documentfolder
- MU10-KAnnual report2026-10-09documentfolder
- MU8-KEarnings release · items 2.02,9.012026-09-30documentfolder
- SNDK8-KCurrent report · items 5.022026-09-16documentfolder
- WDC8-KCurrent report · items 7.01,8.01,9.012026-09-14documentfolder
- SNDK8-KCurrent report · items 1.01,9.012026-09-11documentfolder
- STX8-KCurrent report · items 3.02,7.01,8.01,9.012026-09-09documentfolder
- STX8-KCurrent report · items 5.022026-09-04documentfolder
- WDC8-KCurrent report · items 3.02,8.012026-08-26documentfolder