Intel's CEO hints at re-entering the memory business and names the ex-SK Hynix chief he hired to do it

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Tom's Hardware reported Intel's CEO saying the memory market is "ripe for innovation," hinting at new memory architecture and stacking memory with CPU, and naming Seok-Hee Lee — formerly of SK Hynix — as a recent hire, while adding "we are not ready to unfold it." The r/LocalLLaMA thread hit 383 upvotes with the top comments (97 and 40 upvotes) arguing nothing ships before 2029-2030 because wafer supply, tooling orders and fab construction cannot be compressed, and that Hynix and Samsung took the patents and tools when Intel sold the business. For anyone buying local-inference hardware, this is a signal about 2030, not about this year's RAM prices.