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.

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Every single computer, including DIY boards like the Raspberry Pi, will cost more, and it's only going to get worse.

The AI bubble has caused a severe supply crunch, making RAM chips extremely expensive, to the point where Samsung refuses to sell memory even to itself.

Like peanut butter and jelly, like salt and pepper, like that seemingly perfect couple you love (to hate), the two dominant types of computer memory truly complete one another. Read-only memory (ROM) makes sure our computers and smartphones know how to ...

Due to rising prices from the "AI" bubble, Samsung Semiconductor reportedly refused a RAM order for new Galaxy phones from Samsung Electronics.

Virtual memory is a valuable concept in computer architecture that allows you to run large, sophisticated programs on a computer even if it has a relatively small amount of RAM. A computer with virtual memory artfully juggles the conflicting demands of ...