Memory crisis latest: What we learned from the world's top producers this week

Parts of the market are asking if we're already nearing peak tightness and margins in the memory chip space as the shortage ...

Forget about PCs or LLMs, Micron says driverless cars and humanoid bots will soon be gobbling up 300 GB of RAM per device

Speaking during Micron's recent earnings call with Wall Street's best bean counters, CEO Sanjay Mehrotra explained how both ...
PCMag

Will Demand For Local AI Prolong the Memory Shortage?

Phison's CEO predicts growing interest in running AI models, such as OpenClaw, over PCs threatens to extend the memory shortage. It could also solve the crunch too.
The Economist

The next phase of artificial intelligence may require very different processors

Nvidia faces competition from startups developing specialised chips for AI inference as demand shifts from training large ...
Artnet News

In Uncanny Scenes, Artist Dylan Doe Paints the Bodily ‘Glitches’ of a Tech-Addled Age

In his solo show "Muscle Memory," Dylan Doe traces how our digital dependencies manifest in in the human body and mind.
Forbes

SOCAMM2 Is The Memory Standard AI Is Looking For

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. AI infrastructure cannot evolve at the speed of model innovation. Processor design cycles ...
The Motley Fool

My Recent RAM Upgrade Just Quadrupled in Price. Here's Why I'm Not Mad.

AI data centers are consuming memory chips faster than manufacturers can make them. Consumer memory prices have soared as chipmakers prioritize high-margin AI products. Micron stock is up 5,400% since ...
Psychology Today

Revamping How We Think About Memory

Building a model of the phenomenon you’re studying can help you understand how that thing works. Roadmaps are models of the highways and roads between here and there. We use them to predict how we ...
NPR

There's a shortage of RAM (computer memory). How is this affecting the industry?

There's a RAM shortage at the moment. RAM, as in random access memory. The memory computer keeps immediately at hand, so it can perform tasks quickly. How can that be? Well, as with so much these days ...
The Verge

The RAM crunch could kill products and even entire companies, memory exec admits

Phison’s CEO agrees the RAM crisis could get bad in 2H 2026. Phison’s CEO agrees the RAM crisis could get bad in 2H 2026. is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, ...
TechCrunch

The great computer science exodus (and where students are going instead)

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...
Fast Company

Memory chip stocks: Why Micron and Sandisk are soaring today as shortage fuels global RAM demand

This morning, shares of two of the largest computer memory companies that trade on U.S. markets are up yet again. The stock prices of Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU) and Sandisk Corporation ...