Why a memory chip shortage is wreaking havoc on the consumer electronics industry

A boom of investment in artificial intelligence has led to an unforeseen problem: a shortage of the world's memory chip ...
Rock Paper Shotgun

"Creativity is the key": how PC hardware's smaller manufacturers are navigating the RAM shortage disaster

Small and specialist gaming hardware makers tell us how they're enduring, and sometimes even avoiding, the ongoing memory ...
The New York Times

How the A.I. Boom Could Push Up the Price of Your Next PC

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

Chip crunch: how the AI boom is stoking prices of less trendy memory

SEOUL, Oct 21 (Reuters) - The global rush by chipmakers to produce AI chips is tightening supply of less glamorous chips used in smartphones, computers and servers, spurring panic buying by some ...
The New York Times

How China Built a Chip Industry, and Why It’s Still Not Enough

More than a decade into Beijing’s push for self sufficiency, Chinese firms are producing fewer, lower-performing chips than their foreign competitors. By Meaghan Tobin Reporting from Taipei, Taiwan At ...
Opinion

From AI data centres to your next smartphone: The memory bottleneck is everyone’s problem

The memory shortage risks becoming a broader supply-chain problem. Unlike the pandemic-era chip crunch, which was driven largely by logistics and temporary disruptions, today’s shortage stems from a s ...