'Everyone who wants to build memory has two choices: Pay a 100% tariff, or build in America': US government's threat could mean RAM crisis gets even worse

Consumers in the US now face an additional danger in terms of factors that could seriously hike the price of laptops and PCs.

As AI Eats Up The World’s Chips, Memory Prices Take The Hit

At CES 2026, sleek new laptops dazzled—but soaring memory costs driven by AI chip demand threaten to make everyday PCs ...

Intel has enough RAM for Lunar Lake: 'We were relatively aggressive in terms of getting the memory early'

On-package memory would've put Intel in a tough spot if not.

Why is there a RAM shortage? AI demand and the mad scramble for memory chips could hit where it hurts

There’s only so much RAM to go around, and with data centers seen as the priority, smartphone and laptop makers may have to ...
Electronic Design

Is Soldering Your Own RAM Worth It in Today's Economy?

In a time when DDR5 kits can cost more than a graphics card, some builders are literally soldering their own memory sticks to ...

Kioxia’s memory is “sold out” for 2026, prolonging a “high-end and expensive phase”

The companies that make RAM and flash memory chips are enjoying record profits because of the AI-induced memory crunch—and they’re also indicating that they don’t expect conditions to improve much if ...
Rock Paper Shotgun

RAM may be abominably expensive, but hey, at least SSD prices are also exploding

As tech giants continue hoarding memory chips to build their AI farms, and suppliers gleefully jack up their prices in turn, ...

Why Stock Markets Cratered: RAM Chips, Japan, and Greenland

After enjoying too long a bullish sentiment, stock markets dumped suppliers in the artificial intelligence sector. Companies ...

How AI boom is exhausting memory supply, sending RAM prices soaring

Explosive demand from Nvidia and other AI chipmakers has soaked up global memory supply, pushing DRAM and HBM prices to ...
WESA

Memory loss: As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise

The world has a memory problem, thanks to artificial intelligence. The explosion in AI-related cloud computing and data centers has led to so much demand for certain types of memory chips that now ...