A global shortage of memory chips has turned one of the most invisible parts of the technology supply chain into its most powerful choke point, forcing even the world’s biggest technology companies to queue up and negotiate in person.
Senior procurement executives from global technology firms have been travelling to Seoul and staying for extended periods near chipmaker facilities to negotiate allocations directly with Samsung Electronics and SK hynix — a situation some in the industry have begun referring to, informally, as “DRAM…
