Memory articles

Samsung reveals next-gen memory with stacked HBM and 400-layer NAND

High Bandwidth Flash gets first technical specification for AI data centers

4GB GPUs might return with AMD's Radeon RX 9050

Graphics card prices jump by up to 20% in China as shops stockpile Nvidia and AMD GPUs

China's CXMT surges nearly 500% in explosive Shanghai stock market debut

Mojang changes Minecraft system requirements after 17 years, recommends 16GB of RAM for "Fancy" graphics

Winners & losers: For the first time in nearly two decades, Mojang has announced a significant change in Minecraft's hardware requirements, a rare move for one of the biggest gaming products in history. The Microsoft-owned studio wants to future-proof Minecraft: Java Edition, but players running older hardware won't be cheering this time around.

Framework nearly doubles Laptop 13 Pro memory prices overnight after suppliers demand more than twice as much

NAND shortages could finally ease in 2027, but ADATA warns the DRAM crisis may last another 10 years

Crystal ball: Maybe we're worrying too much about the current memory crisis: according to TrendForce, NAND flash supply growth will outpace demand next year, with supply constraints easing in the second half of 2027. Or maybe we're not worrying enough: Adata's chairman says DRAM shortages will last another decade and that memory and electricity will become the world's two scarcest resources.

Windows 11 bloat proves too much for Microsoft's new 8GB Surface Laptop

Chinese memory maker CXMT's output has grown from 40,000 to 720,000 wafers in a few years, and it's closing in on Micron

SK Hynix predicts memory crunch will peak in 2027 and continue through 2030

SK Hynix raises $26.5 billion in massive US share offering

Redditor finds "16TB SSD" for $30 that was actually a microSD card with weights glued on

Budget smartphones are the next victim of the memory crisis

Samsung will earn more profit in 2026 than it did over the previous 40 years combined thanks to the AI boom

Nvidia's RTX 3060 returns to store shelves at its original 2021 price

Facepalm: A "new" Nvidia graphics card has hit US and European retail stores. But it's not the RTX 5000 Super series, unfortunately: it's the five-year-old RTX 3060, and it carries the same price it did in 2021. The Ampere-era GPU has been slowly making its return since the start of 2026, a response to the memory crisis that has turned the industry into a nightmarish hellscape.

Meta is using old DDR4 memory in DDR5-only AI servers to save on hardware costs

Cutting corners: Faced with rising memory costs, Meta says it is reusing old DDR4 RAM in its servers rather than buying new hardware. The company revealed this week that it is repurposing DDR4 memory from decommissioned servers into its new DDR5-only machines, using a custom CXL ASIC that avoids the compatibility issues and major latency penalties that typically come with mixing memory generations. The design reportedly cuts AI inference server count by up to 25% and reduces job-restart and fragmentation overhead by 33%.

Steam Machine benchmarks show single RAM stick setup can cost up to 20% performance

Cinder City becomes the first PC game to recommend 64GB of RAM, and at the worst time (Updated)

PlayStation 6 bill of materials nears $1,000 as RAM shortages worsen

RAM prices expected to rise another 40-50% in Q3 2026, and then 30% more in Q4 as AI demand outpaces supply

Winners & losers: The memory shortages pushing consumer electronics prices higher are expected to worsen through the rest of this year and into 2027, with possible relief not arriving until 2028. While manufacturers and industry analysts largely attribute the spike to AI infrastructure demand, a new California lawsuit accuses the three companies that dominate DRAM and NAND production of conspiring to exploit those conditions and artificially inflate prices.

The third Xbox price hike in 15 months raises all models by at least $100

Micron CEO expects memory shortages to stretch beyond 2027 as AI spending surges

All MacBooks and iPads just got $200 or more expensive – iPhones are the last holdout