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When supply is short, customers pay up front to hold production slots. The supplier books the cash as a liability, not revenue, and works it off as shipments go out. It also makes the contract hard to walk away from, so a wave of prepaid long-term deals signals that buyers see securing volume as urgent.

Predictions & track record (5)

• Awaiting grading Why is Samsung, coming off a record quarter, locking 60 to 70 percent of its memory capacity into five-year deals?In January 2027, score whether Samsung's LTA volumes reached 60 to 70 percent of its medium- to long-term DRAM and NAND production plans, and whether the five customers then in final negotiations signed.
• Awaiting grading Lumentum handed its wafer supplier $43.5 million up front, and it was not payment for goodsAt AXT's third-quarter results in November 2026, score whether indium phosphide revenue stepped up from the $13.6 million of the first quarter and whether the backlog above $100 million began converting into revenue.
• Awaiting grading Two earnings reports landed on the day chip stocks crashed together, revenue up 165% and 104%Score at Teradyne's third-quarter report on whether it actually delivers the $1.2 billion to $1.3 billion of revenue it guided to.
• Awaiting grading Substrates, Memory and Specialty Gas All Tighten at Once in the AI Chip Supply ChainCheck whether substrate, DDR5 and WF6 prices keep climbing together next quarter, and whether actual AI server shipment delays get reported.
• Awaiting grading Korea moved up a leverage-product crackdown by five days and called it bold. Critics aren't buying itCheck whether the July 31 deposit hike and the follow-on tracking-error rule due August 19 both take effect as scheduled, and whether trading volume in single-stock leverage products actually drops.

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