The ongoing RAM crisis is projected to continue through 2028Samsung says memory shortages are expected to worsen in 2027Deloitte reports the big three RAM manufacturers are anticipated to have a combined capital expenditure that will nearly quadruple between 2024 and 2027The RAM crisis isn’t letting up, with shortages continuing to impact PC hardware manufacturers. Unfortunately,…
Microsoft is eating humble pie over its unrealistic RAM recommendationsIt has deleted articles that pushed 32GB as an ideal or ‘no-worries’ loadoutApple is also feeling the heat in the RAM crisis, with rumors that it’s struggling to secure an alternative source of memory supply from ChinaThere are some fresh twists with the RAM crisis hitting…
The Nvidia RTX 3060 and 3050 are apparently making a comebackA graphics card maker in Asia has new models planned as budget alternatives, and this practice could spread to other regionsMeanwhile, we’re hearing that SK Hynix plans to accelerate development of its memory chip production capacity and triple it by 2034The RAM crisis appears to…
Price hikes on Asus products will be much reduced in the second half of 2026This is over in Taiwan, but should be reflected to an extent globallyThere’s also a report that SK Hynix, a big memory chip maker, is set to slow AI memory production in favor of conventional RAMThere’s been a pretty relentless string…
Lenovo has said that RAM prices will likely “never” fall back to pre-crisis levelsThe company also predicted a “new normal” for memory pricing from 2030 onwardsMicrosoft expects the cost of memory to double in just over a yearIf you were hoping we might get to the weekend without any more bad news on the RAM…
Apple’s CEO has warned of “significantly higher memory costs”From June, we’re told the cost of RAM will “drive an increasing impact” on Apple’s MacsSamsung has also warned on the memory crisis, and that “significant shortages” will continue through 2027 at the very leastApple is warning on the impact of increasingly expensive RAM with its products,…
Micron’s CEO has been talking about the gravity of the RAM supply situationSanjay Mehrotra said that ‘AI is in very early innings’ and that AI will need a lot more memory to ‘scale up’ going forwardThis follows similar warnings from the other two big memory chip makersWe’ve had another warning from a major memory chipmaker…
Micron has unveiled faster new GDDR7 video memoryIt runs at 36Gbps compared to 32Gbps for the initial incarnation of GDDR7This memory also comes in 3GB modules rather than 2GB, which is an important step forward for graphics card VRAM capacityMicron has released a new type of GDDR7 memory for graphics cards, which is the firm’s…
The chairman of a top memory chip maker has issued a worrying warningChey Tae-won notes: “We need some time to build up more wafers, at least four to five years”That’s a more pessimistic prediction than analyst firms are makingOne of the top memory chip makers in the world believes that the RAM supply shortage and…
Samsung is rumored to be ditching SATA SSDsThe firm will supposedly announce this in January 2026This means fewer models at the cheapest end of the SSD spectrum, which is likely to impact pricing considerablyThere’s some more bad news on the SSD front to join yet another worrying development in the RAM world, both of which…
