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Ford is getting serious about memory chips. Which is exactly why they’ve just formed a new long term deal with Micron.

What’s happening:

  • Micron (NASDAQ: MU) and Ford (NYSE: F) have struck a new deal for the supply of automotive memory and storage chips to be used in Ford vehicles

Why it matters:

  • This is the first time ever that Ford and Micron have ever partnered on a long term strategic supply deal for memory hardware

Going deeper:

  • Micron has publicly stated that their new deal with Ford is part of their investment in expanding their manufacturing capacity in the United States of America
  • Micron just recently made major waves on Wall Street when they formed a new partnership with Anthropic to co-design how memory and storage subsystems will be used in Anthropics’s training and inference infrastructure