$Micron Technology(MU)$ and $SanDisk Corp.(SNDK)$ fell about 7%, $Western Digital(WDC)$ and $Seagate Technology PLC(STX)$ fell 4%. That's all because of TurboQuant. Google Research has quietly published TurboQuant — a compression algorithm that makes AI inference 8× faster and uses 6× less memory, with zero accuracy loss and no retraining required. Morgan Stanley is calling it "another DeepSeek moment." The market reacted immediately: memory stocks sold off hard. Is the panic justified? TurboQuant only compresses the KV cache — the temporary memory buffer that stores key-value vectors during inference, growing linearly wi
Micron, SNDK Selloff on TurboQuant: Overreaction or Time to Cool Down?
$Micron Technology (MU), $SanDisk (SNDK), $Western Digital (WDC), and $Seagate Technology (STX) fell 3–6% even as the $Nasdaq-100 rose. The debate: does TurboQuant reduce memory demand — or unlock more usage? Morgan Stanley says it only optimizes inference KV cache, not HBM or training. Others warn efficiency could pressure total capacity needs. With capex surging and expectations high, is this an overreaction — or the first crack in AI memory demand?
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