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The chip that could make or break Wall Street’s confidence in artificial intelligence no longer lives inside a flashy graphics processor. Increasingly, it sits inside a memory module, and it is made by a company that started life in a Boise, Idaho, dental office basement in 1978. For most of its four-decade existence, Micron Technology

The artificial intelligence boom has a people problem, and it is getting worse faster than most investors have noticed. While Wall Street has spent the better part of three years fixating on chip stocks, hyperscaler spending, and the relentless march of AI valuations, a less glamorous drama has been unfolding in suburban town halls, county