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Old Nvidia RTX 3060 GPUs are being quietly resurrected to help solve the RAM crisis — but don’t worry, SK Hynix has revealed a new masterplan that could see its memory production ‘triple by around 2034’

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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…

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I’m painfully aware that the RAM crisis looks dire of late — but Asus and SK Hynix just provided some glimmers of hope

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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…

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‘New normal’: the memory price crisis will get worse before it gets better, as Xbox says it expects prices to double again in 2027, Lenovo suggests they may never come down — and Micron hints Apple’s to blame for the whole thing by being too ‘aggressive’

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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…

‘New normal’: the memory price crisis will get worse before it gets better, as Xbox says it expects prices to double again in 2027, Lenovo suggests they may never come down — and Micron hints Apple’s to blame for the whole thing by being too ‘aggressive’ Read More »

‘No one needs the CEO to spell out the price increases that Apple will be doing in the not too distant future’: Tim Cook warns on RAM pricing, and fears around Mac price hikes intensify

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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,…

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‘AI is in very early innings’: Micron CEO warns that AI will eat up more memory going forward, so the RAM crisis is only likely to get worse

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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…

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Faster video RAM we might see in Nvidia RTX 6000 GPUs – or even RTX 5000 Super refreshes – just turned up

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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…

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‘The current shortage could continue until 2030’: RAM supply woes could last the rest of this decade, SK Group chairman warns

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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…

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Thinking of buying a budget SSD? It’d be wise to act quickly, as these drives could get a lot pricier soon

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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…

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Chip makers warn of a looming shortage in DRAM and SSD

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Chip manufacturers are warning of a shortage in DRAM, NAND and probably HBM memory chips because demand from cloud providers is outstripping supply. The problem is compounded by the Trump administration’s recent ban on Chinese factories manufacturing these components. The largest component manufacturer, Samsung, announced last week in the Korean press that it was going…

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DDR4 RAM is getting more expensive as DDR5 memory pricing falls

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DDR4 RAM is getting more expensiveAI is partly driving that increase in pricing, but it’s also a natural processPrice increases are likely to continueThe PC components market has taken something of a twist as slower last-gen DDR4 memory is now a good deal more expensive than cutting-edge DDR5 RAM – or at least that’s broadly…

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