Nothing screams 2026 like Elon Musk thanking chipmakers on an earnings call

Business Insider· 7h ago· 4 min read

tktk Hannibal Hanschke-Pool/Getty Images Elon Musk thanked Samsung, TSMC, and Micron on Wednesday's earnings call. It was a particularly 2026-like moment — companies are trying to supply chips as prices go wild. "They've got to make some very tough decisions on memory allocation," Musk said. Elon Musk took a moment during Tesla's earnings call on Wednesday to thank three companies that have little to do with traditional automaking. Musk praised Samsung and TSMC during the call, and then turned to another company that manufactures semiconductor chips. "I'd also like to thank Micron for giving us a memory allocation," he said. "They've got to make some very tough decisions on memory allocation." It was perhaps the most 2026 moment of the call. Micron and Samsung are two of the world's largest manufacturers of DRAM, the short-term memory that allows computers to rapidly access and process data. The chips have become one of the AI boom's hottest commodities — and increasingly difficult f

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