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 Global Memory-Chip Shortage Will Cost Us All

AI companies’ need for a once obscure and affordable type of microchip threatens to drive up prices of all electronics—and ...

Why is there a RAM shortage? AI demand and the mad scramble for memory chips could hit where it hurts

There's only so much RAM to go around, and with data centers seen as the priority, smartphone and laptop makers may have to raise prices to compete.
The Business Standard

The ongoing RAM crunch and how it will affect you as a consumer

The global race to build AI data centres is draining memory chips from the consumer market. From smartphones to laptops, a shortage of memory chips is leaving phone and computer makers in a tight spot ...
NPR

Memory loss: As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise

The world has a memory problem, thanks to artificial intelligence. The explosion in AI-related cloud computing and data centers has led to so much demand for certain types of memory chips that now ...

AMD has new chips, but RAM prices are the real boss fight

AMD’s 2026 PC strategy focuses on incremental CPU updates, price-to-performance GPUs, and cautious AI upscaling. The post AMD ...