When AI chip demand is assured, the fight moves to who keeps the margin.
With Samsung posting an $80B profit quarter and Arm cores central to every data-center roadmap, value is contested at the terms of trade — a royalty-strike clause against Arm and a Chinese 4F² cell against the DRAM trio's pricing power — rather than through lost demand.
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The contest is over the contractual terms of payment on demand nobody doubts, with a single remedy clause capable of zeroing half a supplier's operating income.
The bear case has migrated from demand risk to competition risk — CXMT's 4F² roadmap attacks the margin capture of the memory incumbents, not their order books.