The Global Memory-Chip Shortage Will Cost Us All

AI companies’ need for a once obscure and affordable type of microchip threatens to drive up prices of all electronics—and ...

The Daring Attempt to End the Memory Shortage Crisis

The supply shortage of the RAM needed to build phones and PCs isn’t going away. But a few companies have a plan to solve it.
Communications of the ACM

The Impersistence of Memory

“Imagine a computation that produces a new bit of information in every step, based on the bits that it has computed so far. Over t steps of time, it may generate up to t new bits of information in ...
Cybernews

The RAM-ifications of AI: how AI is making your computers and phones more expensive

The RAM shortage has caused prices to surge, increasing by 150% throughout the last year. In this article, I explain how this ...

Paying more for a computer? Blame it on AI.

The AI boom is driving a shortage of computer memory chips, which will lead to higher prices for PCs and smartphones in 2026.

Why is there a RAM shortage? AI demand and the mad scramble for memory chips could hit where it hurts

There's only so much RAM to go around, and with data centers seen as the priority, smartphone and laptop makers may have to ...
Blockonomi

Micron and Samsung Deplete Inventory as AI Creates Consumer Memory Shortage

Memory chip prices surge 50% in Q1 2026 as AI demand exhausts supply. Micron, Samsung, SK Hynix sold out while laptop and ...
Quanta Magazine

For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time

One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling discovery about the relationship between time and memory in computing.