A.I. companies are buying up memory chips, causing the prices of those components — which are also used in laptops and smartphones — to soar.
Micron, SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics — make up nearly the entire RAM market, and they're benefitting from this shortage.
Memory used to be the easy part of a PC or phone upgrade, the line item you barely noticed on the receipt. That era is over. A global crunch in Random access memory is pushing prices sharply higher, ...
AI companies’ need for a once obscure and affordable type of microchip threatens to drive up prices of all electronics—and ...
Micron—which recently decided to exit the consumer RAM and storage markets but is still selling its products to other ...