With the AI giants devouring the market for memory chips, PC prices are set to skyrocket. Here's what I think laptop shoppers need to know right now.

They also all agree that the RAM shortage is about to flip that on its head. Prices will go up. Fewer products will be available. Or as Omdia research manager Le Xuan Chiew put it, “vendors will shift ...

A.I. companies are buying up memory chips, causing the prices of those components — which are also used in laptops and smartphones — to soar.

When we talk about the cost of AI infrastructure, the focus is usually on Nvidia and GPUs -- but memory is an increasingly ...

The result is simple: your next upgrade will cost more, and cutting corners on RAM will hurt performance for years. The shortage is colliding with a moment when software, games, and AI tools all ...

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Facing soaring prices, the world’s biggest electronics companies are staring at a list of unpalatable responses.

Smartphone prices are set to rise significantly in 2026 due to the hidden cost of the AI boom. Demand for HBM server memory is causing a severe production shortage of LPDDR5x (smartphone RAM).

Mini Gaming PCs, Handheld PCs, and the Steam Machine have never made it easier to be a part of the PC Gaming Community, but RAM memory demand has made it more expensive than ever. So much so that even ...