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Micron just reported earnings and the numbers were historic but the most important thing that happened today wasn't the …

Milk Road AI Twitter · Milk Road AI (@MilkRoadAI) · 2026-06-24

Micron Technology reported historic quarterly earnings in June 2026, but the more significant development was the introduction of Strategic Customer Agreements, signaling a shift from commodity memory pricing to long-term contracted supply deals.

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  • Micron's Q2 2026 earnings were historically strong by headline metrics.
  • The most consequential disclosure was three slides on Strategic Customer Agreements, not the quarterly financial print.
  • For 47 years Micron operated as a commodity business where memory prices fluctuated with market cycles.
  • Strategic Customer Agreements represent a structural shift in how Micron prices and contracts its memory supply.

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Micron just reported earnings and the numbers were historic but the most important thing that happened today wasn't the quarterly print.
It was the three slides on Strategic Customer Agreements.
For 47 years, Micron was a commodity business.