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 Tacoma Ledger

Why GPU prices are rising — and how students can cope

Graphics cards (GPUs) are getting more expensive in 2026 driven by the booming demand for artificial intelligence hardware, affecting student’s budgeting for new devices.

Breaking through AI’s memory wall with token warehousing

As agentic AI moves from experiments to real production workloads, a quiet but serious infrastructure problem is coming into ...
PC Gamer

Explainer: The RAMpocalypse is making memory, SSDs, and even GPUs much more expensive, and it's all down to AI

Here's all we know about skyrocketing memory prices and what's causing it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. January 14, 2026: ...

How AI boom is exhausting memory supply, sending RAM prices soaring

Explosive demand from Nvidia and other AI chipmakers has soaked up global memory supply, pushing DRAM and HBM prices to unprecedented levels ...

The memory shortage is driving up prices for SSDs, GPUs, and hard drives – even phone makers are cutting projections

With the DRAM shortage already making memory upgrades prohibitively expensive, high-end SSD prices have also spiked in recent weeks. This surge is being driven by the ...