Samsung Electronics (三星电子) opened 2027 high-bandwidth memory (HBM4) supply negotiations, quoting prices over three times current HBM3E pricing.

Financial_Express, citing South Korea’s Maeil Business Newspaper (每日经济), reports that Samsung Electronics has begun annual contract negotiations with major customers for next year’s HBM4 supply. In the October 2, 2026 report, “next year” refers to 2027.

The reported quote is in the mid-to-high $4 range per gigabit (Gb) (每吉比特（Gb）4 美元中高区间). The source compares that with approximately $1.50/Gb for HBM3E and characterizes the HBM4 quote as more than three times the HBM3E price.

These are supply quotations under negotiation, not disclosed executed contracts or realized selling prices. The pricing unit is a gigabit of memory capacity—not a gigabyte, complete memory stack, GPU, or server—and the source provides no customer names, contracted volumes, or delivery schedule.