The AI crunch is making high-capacity SSDs worth their weight in gold

Redditor Dark_Marmot recently claimed that Western Digital's most expensive WD Black solid-state drive is worth 70 percent more than 24-karat gold by weight. While average SSD ...

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 ...

RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives

Big Tech’s AI-fueled memory shortage is set to be the PC industry’s defining story for 2026 and beyond. Standalone, direct-to ...
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Memory Shortage Now Wreaking Havoc on Hard Drive Prices, Too

ComputerBase finds that popular high-capacity HDDs are now almost 50% more expensive than they were just four months ago.

SK Hynix's unique way of chopping cells in two is a big step in making PLC flash memory chips viable and could offer a solution to ballooning SSD prices

Flash memory cells work by using a large voltage to effectively ram electric charge across an insulated gap. Once there, it ...

As AI Eats Up The World’s Chips, Memory Prices Take The Hit

At CES 2026, sleek new laptops dazzled—but soaring memory costs driven by AI chip demand threaten to make everyday PCs ...

Micron And 6 Chip Stocks Surge As AI Data Explosion Breaks The Memory Market

The global memory chip shortage is deepening in early 2026, as relentless AI-driven demand strains supply chains and begins to reshape market winners and losers, Oxford Economics warns.

Laptop makers have about a year of memory stock to ride out the RAM crunch, Intel says

In a recent interview, Intel said the laptop market is likely to emerge mostly unscathed from the memory chip shortage driven ...

Memory Shortage to Hit Nvidia China Approvals, US Lawmaker Says

Tight memory chip supplies will constrain the number of US export licenses for Nvidia Corp. to sell its H200 artificial intelligence processors to Chinese customers, according to the top Republican on ...
Cult of Mac

You can use this tiny SSD anywhere — no adapter required [Review]

Discover the advantages of the Kingston Dual Portable SSD, a powerful storage solution when transitioning from USB-A to USB-C ...

Kioxia Is Well Positioned to Benefit From Robust Long-Term Growth in Memory Storage Needs

Kioxia is the third-largest NAND memory semiconductor manufacturer globally, with a 14% shipment share as of 2024. NAND memory chips are the primary form of data storage in various electronic devices ...
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DDR5 memory on AM5: The four-way roundup!

Luke is back today with a close look at DDR5 memory on the AM5 platform. He tests four memory kits in total, with offerings from Crucial, G.Skill, Kingston, and Klevv, at a variety of capacities and ...