AI's hunger for memory chips is starving the consumer market, and shoppers are about to pay the price in ways that go far beyond the sticker on a new laptop.

Memory chip costs are up as AI companies gobble up the hot commodity. Consumer electronics companies like Dell and HP are raising prices.

Despite similar challenges, the two computer makers are using different strategies to battle supply constraints, including passing costs on to customers.

A new kind of memory device may finally solve the problem of overheating and battery drain in electronics. By shrinking components to an extreme scale and redesigning their structure, researchers found a way to reduce energy loss instead of increasing it.

Modders install an extra 4GB of GDDR6 memory on a TU106-variant of the GTX 1650, catapulting its performance in memory-bound games and benchmarks.

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 discovery about the relationship between time and memory in ...