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Sam Altman meets with Samsung leadership to secure more RAM for data centers amid crushing shortages

OpenAI targets memory supplies in talks with Samsung executives

By GPU Data Hub Desk · GPU Data Hub·Editorial standards··South Korea
Sam Altman meets with Samsung leadership to secure more RAM for data centers amid crushing shortages

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman held talks with senior Samsung management in South Korea to address rising memory requirements driven by massive investments in artificial intelligence facilities. The discussions took place amid mounting supply constraints for dynamic random-access memory, an area where South Korean manufacturers control the vast majority of the high-bandwidth memory market.

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This summary was written by the GPU Data Hub desk from reporting published by Tom's Hardware on 1 Nov 2026, 14:21. Read the full article at the original publisher.

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