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China's power semiconductor makers are entering a broader price-hike cycle, as AI server demand, raw material inflation, and tight mature-node capacity force suppliers to defend margins after years of low-end price wars.

Micron Technology CEO Sanjay Mehrotra just dropped a truth bomb about why the memory chip industry can't keep up with AI demand. Years of customers squeezing suppliers on price left chipmakers chronically underinvested in new capacity, he revealed in remarks to CNBC. The admission comes as memory prices surge and tech giants scramble for high-bandwidth memory chips essential for AI data centers.

The AI wave is rapidly reshaping the global semiconductor supply chain, and that upheaval is opening a new growth chapter for Taiwan's LED industry. As Taiwan's LED makers move away from the price wars of the consumer market, Nvidia's push to upgrade AI transmission standards to 1.6T, 3.2T, and beyond is exposing the physical limits of copper wiring, making scale-up the first battlefield in the co