On top of devouring energy, water, and graphics cards, the AI industry is now swallowing the world's supply of precious RAM.

Fancy cameras, giant screens and massive storage usually make smartphones more expensive. But next year, it’s a routine component that might be boosting prices: memory.

Computer memory prices are climbing faster than gold, creating a global crisis that threatens to make technology significantly more expensive for consumers. DRAM prices have skyrocketed by 171.8% over ...

Micron will stop consumer memory sales by February 2026 to focus on high-bandwidth memory for AI data centres.

In other words (he says) raw LLMs know how to speak; memory tells them what to say.

Micron, one of the leading manufacturers of computer products, has announced that it’s leaving the Crucial consumer business ...

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 ...

(Yicai) Nov. 27 -- The surge in memory prices that began in the second half of this year is spreading from the upstream to ...

(Yicai) Dec. 3 -- Many newly released mobile phones in China are selling for between CNY100 (USD14) and CNY300 more than ...

If your Windows 11 or Windows 10 computer won’t start and emits one short beep when you press the power button, indicating a Memory Refresh Timer Error, then this post provides the most suitable ...

One thing has bucked the trend of rising prices: computing. Technological advances have underpinned a consistent drop in the ...