Nvidia's Jensen Huang says he sees no sign of a 2029 memory glut: 'You can always use more'

Co-founder, President and CEO of US technology company Nvidia, Jensen Huang, gestures during a press briefing in Paris on Oct. 13, 2026.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC Thursday that a surplus of memory supply is unlikely by 2029, despite a sell-off in memory stocks over the past week amid concerns about oversupply and weakening demand.

"One of the things that's really great about memory is that you can always use more of it," Huang told CNBC's Arjun Kharpal in a wide-ranging interview on the sidelines of the company's GTC Berlin conference. He added that HBM, a type of random access memory, or RAM, will be used for years to come.

"We're the first company in the world to put LPDDR memory — what goes into your cell phones — into the world's data centers, and it's enabled us to deliver performance that's twice as energy efficient as anything in the world today, and so we're going to continue to use abundant amounts of them as well," he added.

Memory stocks have taken a battering in the past week after an opinion column published in a prominent South Korean publication on Oct. 15 urged the country's government to brace for a deceleration in the AI boom.

The column cited two experts who said they expect to see a "flood of new supply," which will turn the memory market "into a red ocean" in 2029, per CNBC's translation. "The supercycle could be over, and the industry could enter a downturn," by 2029, they wrote.

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Memory is a core component of Nvidia's chips, and a glut of supply could push prices lower and hit profit margins for the companies that make the product, such as SK Hynix, Samsung, and Micron.

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk responded to the article at the time, saying that China "will be making a LOT of RAM in 2028."

"China is incredible at the fundamental infrastructure technology, and no country collectively is better at manufacturing than China, and so we have to take their capabilities very seriously," he added.