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

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The rapid growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the data centers needed to power it, are creating a supply crisis for computer memory chips, known as "RAM". Some fear that ...

Memory used to be the easy part of a PC or phone upgrade, the line item you barely noticed on the receipt. That era is over. A global crunch in Random access memory is pushing prices sharply higher, ...

Smartphone prices are set to rise significantly in 2026 due to the hidden cost of the AI boom. Demand for HBM server memory is causing a severe production shortage of LPDDR5x (smartphone RAM).