{"slug": "micron-locks-in-historically-high-memory-prices-for-five-years", "title": "Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years", "summary": "Micron has secured five-year deals with major buyers locking in historically high memory prices, ensuring the chipmaker will deliver enormous margins and profits over the period.", "body_md": "### MOST POPULAR\n\n[AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai)\n\n-\nChannel\n\n#### Infosys boss says vibe coding is no threat because there’s more to writing software than writing software\n\nDespite warnings of revenue deflation, chairman predicts AI will make more work, not less, for services orgs\n\n-\nsystems\n\n#### Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years\n\nBig buyers agree to deals that will deliver historically enormous margins and profits\n\n-\nDevops\n\n#### Companies are not looking before they're leaping into the AI playpen\n\n93% of organizations report infrastructure incidents attributable to AI\n\n-\nai and ml\n\n#### Loop engineering, latest AI buzzword, still needs humans in the loop\n\nPrompting less and automating more comes with a price\n\n-\nai and ml\n\n#### OpenAI Codex bombards SSDs with needless write operations, costing millions\n\nClumsy logging implementation squirrels away data without regard for cost\n\n[Infosec](https://beta.theregister.com/security)\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks\n\nPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack\n\nPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more\n\n-\nBlack Hat and DEF CON\n\n#### DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure\n\nVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis\n\nWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified\n\n-\nMalware Month\n\n#### Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight\n\nOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career\n\n[FOSS](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS)\n\n-\n#### Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak form\n\nRetro-computing fun for the nostalgic with first (and last) release to use Motif instead of GTK\n\n-\n#### Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release'\n\nMore Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too\n\n-\n#### France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well\n\nNextcloud rollout shows locally controlled storage is one thing; getting users off Office is quite another\n\n-\n#### History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system\n\nWhen a community came together after Red Hat said Windows was 'probably the right product'\n\n-\n#### Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it\n\nProject Headroom could save you big money, too\n\n-\n#### OpenBSD 7.9 arrives, a diamond in the rough proud of every sharp edge\n\nSixtieth release adds more cores, delayed hibernation, and basic Wi-Fi 6 without losing its ascetic streak", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/micron-locks-in-historically-high-memory-prices-for-five-years", "canonical_source": "https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/06/25/micron-locks-in-historically-high-memory-prices-for-five-years/5261854", "published_at": "2026-06-25 02:07:15+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-25 06:15:34.812458+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure", "ai-chips"], "entities": ["Micron"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/micron-locks-in-historically-high-memory-prices-for-five-years", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/micron-locks-in-historically-high-memory-prices-for-five-years.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/micron-locks-in-historically-high-memory-prices-for-five-years.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/micron-locks-in-historically-high-memory-prices-for-five-years.jsonld"}}