Micron’s rally extended after a strong forecast lifted its market value above Meta and briefly near Tesla, highlighting how AI-driven demand for memory chips is reshaping the semiconductor sector.
Micron’s strong quarterly results and forecast extended the memory chipmaker’s AI-fueled rally, pushing its stock up 18.4% to $1,236 and lifting its market capitalization to about $1.398 trillion, above Meta Platforms and briefly near Tesla. The company said customers had committed $22 billion to secure memory chip supply, reinforcing investor confidence after Micron’s latest revenue surge and earnings beat. Micron first topped a $1 trillion valuation on May 26, joining a group of mega-cap semiconductor names that has expanded as investors bet Big Tech’s heavy spending on AI infrastructure will keep driving demand for advanced memory products such as high bandwidth memory. Its role in the AI buildout centers on supplying the fast memory needed to keep powerful processors fed with data during large language model training and deployment.