The AI boom is driving a shortage of computer memory chips, which will lead to higher prices for PCs and smartphones in 2026.
The RAM shortage has caused prices to surge, increasing by 150% throughout the last year. In this article, I explain how this crisis was caused by the rise in AI use.
Admittedly, it's given us its own share of mild gloom with its own expensive products and relentless focus on AI, but that's ...
There is a bit more nuance to be gleaned beyond that eye-watering figure, though. To begin with, Samsung's full earnings ...
Mobile phone companies like Vodafone and EE have not issued public statements yet specifically blaming the increased cost of ...
Building a PC or buying one is about to get even pricier.
The supply shortage of the RAM needed to build phones and PCs isn’t going away. But a few companies have a plan to solve it.
Memory trend charts from PCPartPicker show how much has changed in a relatively short time. For much of 2025, DDR4 pricing ...
This is something AMD is 'very actively working on...to satisfy the demands of gamers,' an AMD exec says at CES, though ...
Sim Lim Square retailers told CNA that the current price hikes are among the highest they have seen in decades.
Even the world’s largest memory-chip maker's portfolio is not immune to rising memory costs. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The AI chip giant has taken the wraps off its latest compute platform designed for test-time scaling and reasoning models, alongside a slew of open source models for robotics and autonomous driving.