The answer: AI of course.

At CES 2026, sleek new laptops dazzled—but soaring memory costs driven by AI chip demand threaten to make everyday PCs ...

Big Tech’s AI-fueled memory shortage is set to be the PC industry’s defining story for 2026 and beyond. Standalone, direct-to ...

PC maker Framework announced Monday its higher-memory desktops would see significant price hikes thanks to memory supply ...

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

There’s only so much RAM to go around, and with data centers seen as the priority, smartphone and laptop makers may have to ...

Reports suggest NAND production cuts by Samsung and SK Hynix could lead to higher SSD prices as storage supply tightens.

As tech giants continue hoarding memory chips to build their AI farms, and suppliers gleefully jack up their prices in turn, ...

A quick check on some price search engines underscores just how hostile the current upgrade market has become for system ...

Micron—which recently decided to exit the consumer RAM and storage markets but is still selling its products to other ...

DDR5 prices went from boring to brutal as 64GB kits exploded during the late 2025 global memory market shockwave ...