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New reporting from Ars Technica lays out just how dire the situation has become, showing that prices for essential PC components, such as RAM and SSDs, have skyrocketed. The culprit is the ongoing AI boom, with data centers reportedly consuming the world’s supply of memory and storage hardware, driving prices straight into the stratosphere.
The AI industry consumes vast amounts of energy, fresh water and investor cash. Now it also needs memory chips - the same ones used in laptops, smartphones and games consoles
Here's the next industry to benefit from strong demand being created by the continued growth of the AI industry.
The shortage for RAM is causing Framework Computer to preserve inventory. Meanwhile, Lenovo has been stockpiling its own RAM supplies to head off price increases.
A research team, led by the University of Cambridge, has developed a novel computer memory design, which promises to significantly improve performance while reducing the energy demands of internet and communications technologies. As per the university, AI ...
(Yicai) Nov. 27 -- The surge in memory prices that began in the second half of this year is spreading from the upstream to the downstream of the supply chain in China at an unprecedented speed, affecting various consumer electronics, including phones and home network attached storage devices, according to industry insiders.
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In a bid to create smaller, more powerful computers and smartphones, researchers at New York University have come up with a new digital data storage technique they've dubbed "racetrack memory." There are two primary forms of computer memory: flash memory ...
(Yicai) Dec. 3 -- Many newly released mobile phones in China are selling for between CNY100 (USD14) and CNY300 more than their previous models due to unforeseen hikes in the price of memory storage, and even bigger increases could be still to come, industry insiders said.
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