The bad news continues - server prices set to rise in latest blow to hardware budgets

Analysts warn that DRAM and HBM production is increasingly focused on AI servers, reducing availability for standard consumer hardware. TrendForce estimates that DRAM prices could climb between 8 and ...
PC Gamer

Explainer: This is why memory and storage is so expensive (of course it's AI) and why PC gaming hardware prices are only going to keep rising, even probably for GPUs

We can't seem to get a moment's respite in the PC gaming industry, can we? We spent the better part of this year lamenting ridiculously high GPU prices, and as soon as said prices finally start ...
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PC and smartphone markets forecast to shrink in 2026 due to higher prices as memory supply crisis escalates and threatens to spoil Black Friday for PC fans

Market analyst Trendforce is predicting that both the PC and smartphone markets will actually shrink next year as a consequence of the memory supply crisis (via Hankyung.com). So far, we haven't seen ...