The Components Sold First
A Zhuhai operator used DeepSeek, a Hermes agent and a godmode jailbreak to hunt 460-plus targets. Open-weight models made the offensive kit a shopping list.
SK Hynix has priced the biggest foreign listing in American history at $149 a share. The memory war we have tracked for a fortnight now has a market price. It reads as a verdict on who controls the inference economy.
AI’s memory bottleneck is now reshaping the chip war. Apple’s search for Chinese supply, Micron’s pricing power, South Korea’s expansion and Nvidia’s HBM demand expose a harder truth: the AI boom is becoming a test of cost, sovereignty and global dependence across every device and data centres now.
Nvidia’s blockbuster quarter, Cerebras’ vertiginous IPO and Huawei’s state backed ascent reveal both the promise and fragility of the emerging inference economy, where capital, chips and geopolitics now move in lockstep across Washington, Wall Street and Beijing.
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