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Memory is a commodity cycle wearing a secular costume, and the cycle is turning where the wall says it should. The mechanism runs through the power bill: hyperscalers who cannot secure the megawatts defer the accelerators, the accelerator vendor holding thin inventory cuts its forward memory orders, and those cuts land just as the memory makers' new capacity arrives — margins built at peak pricing do not shrink in that world, they collapse. Micron sits at the receiving end of every link in that chain: it must spend heavily to build out production against orders it has not yet filled, its input is energy in an energy shock, and its product is priced by whichever competitor blinks first. The tells were on the tape by mid-July — the AI-capex rout ran straight through Asian semiconductor names, a Korean memory maker that listed in the United States at the top of the cycle fell more than eight percent in a week, and by the end of the month memory had sold hard with the sell-side turning. The expression is the stance itself, graded on the prints and deliberately not an options clock: a structural view on a theta clock is a donation, and the book buried that wrapper before it filed this thesis. The kill is pre-registered on the company's own numbers: two consecutive quarterly prints in which gross margin holds or widens quarter over quarter while next-quarter revenue guidance steps above the quarter just reported — a cycle that is not rolling over. The first scored test is the late-September print. Verdict due June 30, 2027.