RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs(arstechnica.com)

346 points by jnord 8 months ago | 272 comments

Ars Technica article reporting HP says RAM now makes up about 35 percent of its PC bill of materials, up from 15-18 percent last quarter.

Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage(arstechnica.com)

324 points by rbanffy 7 months ago | 198 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that Apple quietly dropped the 512GB RAM Mac Studio configuration amid an industry-wide memory shortage.

AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip(arstechnica.com)

293 points by zdw 7 months ago | 162 comments

TSMC will stop making 7 nm chips for Chinese customers(arstechnica.com)

52 points by alsetmusic 1 year ago | 24 comments

SK Hynix CEO sees memory chip shortage lasting until 2030(sammyfans.com)

44 points by porridgeraisin 1 month ago | 38 comments

South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots(arstechnica.com)

227 points by jnord 3 months ago | 154 comments

Memory Companies Have Destroyed the Consumer Market(gamersnexus.net)

74 points by DeepLogin 26 days ago | 51 comments

GamersNexus news feature arguing that memory manufacturers have damaged the consumer RAM market through pricing and supply decisions.

The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4(theverge.com)

262 points by 1potato 16 days ago | 273 comments

The Verge news article reporting that a RAM shortage is reviving DDR4, with Intel and AMD releasing new CPUs supporting older RAM, sockets, and chipsets.

RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung(pcworld.com)

331 points by sethops1 10 months ago | 314 comments

PCWorld news article reporting that Samsung Semiconductor reportedly refused a RAM order from Samsung Electronics for Galaxy phones amid AI-driven memory price increases.

Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026(techpowerup.com)

310 points by speckx 25 days ago | 360 comments

TechPowerUp news article on Micron's CEO saying memory supply will be much tighter in 2027 and 2028 than in 2026; the page returned a 403 Access Denied error.

Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs(epoch.ai)

411 points by intelkishan 5 months ago | 438 comments

Epoch AI data insight reporting that high-bandwidth memory rose from 52% to 63% of AI chip component spending between Q1 2024 and Q4 2025.

Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage(arstechnica.com)

324 points by rbanffy 7 months ago | 198 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that Apple quietly dropped the 512GB RAM Mac Studio configuration amid an industry-wide memory shortage.