Memory chip costs are up as AI companies gobble up the hot commodity. Consumer electronics companies like Dell and HP are raising prices.

A memory chip shortage is driving up computer prices for consumers, reversing a decades-long drop in hardware costs.

If it feels these days as if everything in technology is about AI, that's because it is. And nowhere is that more true than in the market for computer memory. Demand, and profitability, for the type of DRAM used to feed GPUs and other accelerators in AI ...

Software and computer accessories were up a record 14.5 per cent in May from a year earlier. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Since late last year, I’ve been warning potential buyers of consumer tech to make their moves sooner rather than later. That’s because the price of gear has been increasing at an alarming rate thanks to a shortage of memory and solid-state storage chips.

Video gamers were among the first to grumble when supplies of random access memory (RAM) chips began to run short last year, causing prices to soar. But the ongoing crisis — which has been dubbed RAMmageddon and is expected to linger well into 2027 ...

Micron Technology Inc. (MU) and elephants seem to have as little in common as, well, a semiconductor manufacturer and a several-ton land mammal. But they do share one common trait: celebrated memory. Elephants, of course, store memory cerebrally.