Sandisk stock surges 23% as Nvidia CES update puts AI data-center storage back in play
New York, January 6, 2026, 12:35 EST Sandisk shares jumped 23.4% to $338.26 in midday trade on Tuesday, leading a renewed run in storage and memory stocks linked to AI data-center spending. Micron rose 6.4%, Western Digital gained 15.3% and Seagate added 12.3%. Sandisk was on track for its biggest one-day rise in nearly a year. MarketWatch Traders pointed to Nvidia’s message at CES that serving AI models is reshaping what data centers need to keep close at hand. Nvidia said its new Inference Context Memory Storage Platform is designed to store and share the “key-value” cache — the running