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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met around 50 Samsung executives in South Korea on October 31 to discuss AI's future and secure more RAM for data centers amid severe shortages.

Seeking additional memory supply from Samsung is a direct bid for scarce DRAM capacity that constrains AI server build-outs, and shows memory allocation is becoming a negotiating lever for top AI buyers.
Trade pressSlicast · November 1, 2026 at 14:21 UTC · Global · Source: Tom's Hardware
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