A little bit of both, Tim, honestly, right? Part of it is scale and scope and revenue growth. Part of it is new product introduction and getting fairly paid for the value we're delivering.
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Lam Research Corporation 2026 Q4: AI-driven NAND scaling to 500+ layers and doubling per-wafer SAM
AI-driven NAND scaling to 500+ layers and doubling per-wafer SAM
- Management tied record customer demand and profitability to AI waves progressing from training to inference to agentic and physical AI.
- Expanding context windows and persistent memory requirements are driving significantly higher demand for flash storage.
- Customers are adding bit supply and improving device capability through installed base conversions to 200-plus layer architectures.
- Lam expects SAM per wafer in NAND to double from 128-layer nodes to 500-plus layer devices.
- Management described how higher aspect ratio and manufacturing complexity increase Lam’s opportunity as layers rise.