How the A.I. Boom Could Push Up the Price of Your Next PC

A.I. companies are buying up memory chips, causing the prices of those components — which are also used in laptops and smartphones — to soar.
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Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments

Memory chip shortage set to spread well beyond the confines of datacenters and computers ...
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It's going to be raining dollars over at Samsung: A stamp of approval by Nvidia, plus an incoming price hike for DRAM chips, has lifted shares out of the doldrums

And it's not the only RAM and NAND flash maker to significantly bump prices. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Add us as a ...
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chip types

Following are the types of chips used in computers and computer-based devices. There are also custom-made chips for special purposes (see ASIC). Although hard drives are still made and are the primary ...
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Buy now or weep later: Memory pricing jacking up the cost of everything with RAM

If you've been thinking about buying a new computer and figuring you'd score an after-holidays deal, you may want to rethink that strategy. That's because Random Access Memory, or RAM, chips are ...