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

Skyrocketing memory and storage prices have pushed the cost of an entry-level PC from $600 to $1,000, making it poor value ...

The largest PC makers don’t imagine the personal computer will stay the same. The next PC you buy may either be more powerful ...

The shortages are driven by explosive AI demand, and the latest report says that up to 70 percent of the memory produced worldwide in 2026 will be consumed by data centers. However, those specific ...

To be clear, Patriot is a module manufacturer in the memory space, not a chip manufacturer. There are precious few of those, ...

Reports from a few days ago suggested that some smartphone manufacturers may raise prices of new handsets to account for the shortage of chips caused by the AI boom. Separately, a report said Apple ...

At first glance, seeing a string of numbers like "34-42-42-96" on RAM packaging might be puzzling — but they carry important technical meaning. They refer to memory timings, with the first indicating ...

PCWorld reports that AI data center demand is driving a global memory chip shortage, causing RAM and NAND storage prices to spike by hundreds of percent. Major tech companies including Dell, Lenovo, ...

What’s happened? The bad news keeps stacking up for anyone planning a PC build or upgrade. It’s not just GPUs and RAM climbing in price. In fact, SSDs are now part of the squeeze, with chipmakers ...

Price hikes related to the memory shortage aren’t just coming for PC gamers; smartphones, laptops, and storage drives could soon get increases, too. is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. This is the second in a set of four blogs about projections for digital storage and memory for the following year that we have ...