{"id":228427,"date":"2026-01-06T10:08:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/memory-chip-giants-spark-global-semiconductor-rally-as-shortages-stoke-price-hikes"},"modified":"2026-01-06T10:08:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:08:57","slug":"memory-chip-giants-spark-global-semiconductor-rally-as-shortages-stoke-price-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/memory-chip-giants-spark-global-semiconductor-rally-as-shortages-stoke-price-hikes","title":{"rendered":"Memory chip giants spark global semiconductor rally as shortages stoke price hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/memory-chip-giants-spark-global-semiconductor-rally-as-shortages-stoke-price-hikes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Semiconductor stocks rallied to start the year, led by the world\u2019s biggest memory chip firms that are getting a boost from continued artificial intelligence-related demand.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics, the world\u2019s two biggest memory makers, are up 11.5% and 15.9% respectively year-to-date. Micron is 9% higher this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Semiconductor stocks rallied to start the year, led by the world\u2019s biggest memory chip firms that are getting a boost from continued artificial intelligence-related demand. South Korea\u2019s SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics, the world\u2019s two biggest memory makers, are up 11.5% and 15.9% respectively year-to-date. Micron is 9% higher this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}