Why the memory crunch is almost impossible to solve

Consumer tech is being squeezed as chip production falls short and national-security fears limit buying from China.

The memory shortage is driving up the cost of laptops

Memory chip costs are up as AI companies gobble up the hot commodity. Consumer electronics companies like Dell and HP are ...

Nvidia unveils RTX Spark computer chip with up to 20 cores, RTX 5070 GPU and 128GB RAM

Nvidia's new superchip combines a 3nm ARM design with proper RTX graphics and is aimed at running local AI agents. Nvidia ...

The cost of personal computers declined steadily for 40 years — until AI came along. Why getting your hands on a new device could cost you

AI's hunger for memory chips is starving the consumer market, and shoppers are about to pay the price in ways that go far ...
Nature

‘RAMmageddon’ hits labs: AI-driven memory shortage is impacting science

Video gamers were among the first to grumble when supplies of random access memory (RAM) chips began to run short last year, causing prices to soar. But the ongoing crisis — which has been ...
Houston Chronicle

The memory chip crisis rages on. Besides your wallet, here are some of the casualties.

Since late last year, I’ve been warning potential buyers of consumer tech to make their moves sooner rather than later. That’s because the price of gear has been increasing at an alarming rate thanks ...
SlashGear

This YouTuber Made Computer RAM At Home, But Proved It's A Crushingly Complex Task

Can you make RAM at home? Technically, yes. One person, YouTuber Dr. Semiconductor, has done it, but it's unlikely the rest of us are about to get around the current out-of-control RAM prices by ...