A.I. companies are buying up memory chips, causing the prices of those components — which are also used in laptops and smartphones — to soar.

Micron, SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics — make up nearly the entire RAM market, and they're benefitting from this shortage.

With the DRAM shortage already making memory upgrades prohibitively expensive, high-end SSD prices have also spiked in recent weeks. This surge is being driven by the ...

According to TechPowerUp, DDR4 RAM prices are surging worldwide, reflecting the deepening global DRAM shortage. A new ...

Over the past 25 years we have seen the transition from sdram (Synchronous Dynamic RAM) to ddr (Double Data Rate) SDRAM, and ...

Upgradable PC maker Framework says it’s been forced to raise prices for its desktop model, which it blames on the ongoing memory shortage. “ We held off on it for as long as we could, but we had to ...

Research firm IDC predicts that the average price of computers could rise by up to 8% in 2026 due to a global shortage of memory chips (RAM and NAND). The background is the sharp increase in demand ...

Raspberry Pi confirms new price increases across several models, citing soaring global memory costs driven by AI and chip shortages.

CPU and memory shortages, tariffs, and a focus on higher-end devices will make low-cost laptops offering decent performance ...

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