AI-driven memory demand is squeezing global supply, raising device costs and threatening affordable smartphone ...

There's a RAM shortage at the moment. RAM, as in random access memory. The memory computer keeps immediately at hand, so it can perform tasks quickly. How can that be? Well, as with so much these days ...

Semiconductor stocks fell amid concerns that rising memory prices could ripple across the broader tech industry, squeezing ...

The company that always ate the cost increase just decided it can't anymore.

In popular media, “AI” usually means large language models running in expensive, power-hungry data centers. For many applications, though, smaller models running on local hardware are a much better ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

Apple hiked iPad and MacBook prices on Thursday, saying it could no longer shield customers from soaring memory and storage ...

A Nature paper describes an innovative analog in-memory computing (IMC) architecture tailored for the attention mechanism in large language models (LLMs). They want to drastically reduce latency and ...

Being a consumer has been challenging over the past few years. Between a global pandemic and sweeping tariffs, wallets have taken repeated hits — but for PC hobbyists right now, it might actually be ...

One of the biggest impacts of Apple's switch from Intel to its own M-series silicon -- debuting with the M1 in the 2020 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac Mini -- is faster, more stable, and more energy ...

The iPhone's price tag is expected to jump this fall as the AI boom drives up chip costs. Apple is already boosting the ...