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How and when the memory chip shortage will end

Despite new fabs and new technology, prices will stay high ...

AI memory is sold out, causing an unprecedented surge in prices

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

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 ...

The Global Memory-Chip Shortage Will Cost Us All

AI companies’ need for a once obscure and affordable type of microchip threatens to drive up prices of all electronics—and ...
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Paving the way to extremely fast, compact computer memory

Researchers have demonstrated that the layered multiferroic material nickel iodide (NiI2) may be the best candidate yet for devices such as magnetic computer memory that are extremely fast and compact ...

Micron's new DRAM factory reportedly doesn't come online until 2030 and the plans of the other two big players in computer memory aren't much better

The RAMpocalypse is set to go on for years.