At CES 2026, sleek new laptops dazzled—but soaring memory costs driven by AI chip demand threaten to make everyday PCs ...
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Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments
The shortages are driven by explosive AI demand, and the latest report says that up to 70 percent of the memory produced worldwide in 2026 will be consumed by data centers. However, those specific ...
Big Tech’s AI-fueled memory shortage is set to be the PC industry’s defining story for 2026 and beyond. Standalone, direct-to ...
As tech giants continue hoarding memory chips to build their AI farms, and suppliers gleefully jack up their prices in turn, ...
The BackDash on MSN
Memory shortages are now making RAM theft a lucrative business
AI slop has made the memory market so bad that shortages and insane price hikes is making RAM theft a lucrative business. The post Memory shortages are now making RAM theft a lucrative business ...
The three biggest memory producers on the planet are Samsung, Micron, and SK Hynix. The latter just announced that it’s ...
DDR5 prices went from boring to brutal as 64GB kits exploded during the late 2025 global memory market shockwave ...
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RAM Prices Will Surge Even Higher in 2026 as AI Demand Triggers a ‘Memory Pandemic’ for Gamers
RAM prices are climbing fast in 2026 as AI demand reshapes the market, creating major upgrade and affordability issues for PC ...
There's only so much RAM to go around, and with data centers seen as the priority, smartphone and laptop makers may have to ...
A Micron VP tried to explain that since the company is still selling RAM to PC manufacturers, the shuttering of its Crucial ...
Memory trend charts from PCPartPicker show how much has changed in a relatively short time. For much of 2025, DDR4 pricing ...
The largest PC makers don’t imagine the personal computer will stay the same. The next PC you buy may either be more powerful ...
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