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AI-fueled demand drives memory to dominate chip sales as shortages persist
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (13+ words) CHOSUNBIZ Chosunbiz...
The end of cheap compute
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (706+ words) Hey. It’s my birthday, so I’m running a sale! I’m turning 50 (jfc), which means everything’s 50 percent off this week. Join the party! 🎂 On to this week’s update. Now, five months after cutting the price of its most expensive subscription tier,…...
The Market Will Be Shaken Even More: Memory Inventories at Samsung and SK hynix Plummet to Critical Levels
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (467+ words) The artificial intelligence boom is to blame. Memory chip inventories at South Korea's largest manufacturers — Samsung Electronics and SK hynix — have fallen to critically low levels. According to Business Korea, citing Kim Dong-won, head of the KB Securities research center,…...
Smartphone & Computer Prices Surge: Young Consumers Pay the New "AI Tax"
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (792+ words) The "wait-for-price-cut" group, who are used to waiting for price reductions and subsidies, have encountered price hikes this year instead. Computers and tablets have also avoided the price surge. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics of China shows that…...
Someone Found $12,000 Worth of Server RAM Sitting in Their Garage
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (208+ words) Reddit user’s 30 enterprise ECC modules total nearly 2TB, fetching up to $400 each from a narrow pool of server buyers These modules are purpose-built server hardware, and that distinction is exactly what drives the price. Elevated DDR5 pricing has quietly kept enterprise DDR4 relevant…...
The rise in drive prices is being driven by AI and even HDDs can't hide
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (334+ words) What used to be a painless purchase now makes our eyes water. First it was RAM. Now it's the hard drives. Is nothing sacred? The AI data center boom has transformed once-cheap solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard drives (HDDs) into…...
PC shipments are falling, but manufacturers are making more money selling pricier AI PCs
4+ day, 13+ hour ago (99+ words) The pressure is originating in the AI infrastructure market, where demand for memory chips has driven up component costs and limited supply for other hardware categories....
SK hynix Boosts Leading-Edge 1c DRAM Production to a Dominant Position
5+ day, 12+ hour ago (198+ words) TechPowerUp SK hynix Boosts Leading-Edge 1c DRAM Production to a Dominant Position - Jan 16th 2026 NVIDIA Reportedly Ends GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Production, RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB Next (210) - Dec 31st 2025 Leaks Predict $5000 RTX 5090 GPUs in 2026 Thanks to AI Industry Demand (124) - Dec 13th 2025 SK Hynix Forecasts Tight Memory…...
RAM Prices Soar 485% as Memory Shortage Hits Canada [2026]
5+ day, 14+ hour ago (665+ words) By early September 2026, the shortage has moved past “annoying” into “reshaping how people buy computers.” Retailers are rationing stock. System builders are quoting prices that expire within days. And the two component categories that used to be the cheapest part…...
AI-Driven Memory Shortage Is Pushing Gaming Hardware Costs Higher For Australian Player
5+ day, 15+ hour ago (733+ words) MKAU Gaming The Cryptoplinko editorial team watches digital entertainment markets closely, and the numbers coming out of the memory sector have been hard to ignore. A 16GB RAM chip that once sold for as little as $4.76 has climbed to nearly $60 as…...