Steam's latest survey shows 32GB RAM overtaking 16GB despite the massive price surge
32GB configurations jumped more than 4 points in a single month, reaching 42% of all Steam gaming rigs
Micron says robots will keep RAM prices high, even if the AI bubble pops
Morgan Stanley expects the humanoid market to reach 930 million units by 2050
G.Skill wins customer's lifetime loyalty after replacing a $150 open-box eBay RAM kit now worth $1,199
In a nutshell: There's been a depressing trend recently in which hardware companies refuse warranty claims for questionable reasons – or refund the customer's original purchase amount – as a result of their products' prices skyrocketing. But it seems not every firm is being greedy. One person has praised G.Skill for replacing a 64 GB DDR5 RAM kit bought from eBay for $150 with a brand-new kit worth $1,199.
Raspberry Pi's RAM lock was built to stop scalpers, but it's blocking repairs too
Raspberry Pi says the lock stops resellers from passing off modified boards as factory models
China's CXMT just entered mass production of memory chips that can rival Samsung's
CXMT is starting with LPDDR5X chips offering 50% more capacity, targeting phones and laptops
Acer CEO says PC prices could fall by 2027, accuses rivals of milking the RAM shortage for profit
Micron, SK Hynix, and Adata CEOs have predicted shortages lasting into 2030 or beyond
SK Hynix eyes Intel's Ohio fabs for US memory production
A lease or joint venture could bring SK Hynix's first US memory fabrication operation to Intel's delayed Ohio campus
Micron offered its Taiwan workers up to 68 months' pay. They turned it down within hours
The largest reward package in company history still doesn't answer the question its unions are actually asking
Lucky enthusiast found $12,000 worth of RAM sitting in his garage
Salvaged from an old, decommissioned server
Apple is reportedly exploring a Chinese memory supplier, and it's politically loaded
CXMT is targeting 300,000 DRAM wafers per month by year's end as it courts global customers
Chip manufacturer CXMT asks Pentagon to remove it from list of Chinese military-linked companies
The US government is not basing their decisions on factual records, CXMT said
Cloudflare freed up 100TB of RAM behind its 1.1.1.1 DNS without adding a single server
Five Rust code changes cut typical DNS cache entries from 953 bytes to 420 bytes
Micron's workers want the AI boom bonuses SK Hynix and Samsung already gave theirs
SK Hynix paid employees around $477,000 each, with next year's bonus potentially reaching $900,000
Bottom line: The profits of DRAM and NAND manufacturers have skyrocketed since the AI boom drove up demand for memory. After SK Hynix and Samsung awarded their employees generous bonuses from the windfall, union members at Micron are now wondering when they will receive their share.
Samsung's new portable SSDs are blazing fast over USB4, but will torch your wallet
High-quality, fast external storage that will cost you an arm and a leg
Amazon raises Kindle, eero, Fire TV, and Echo prices by up to 60%
Amazon blames the memory crunch for the price hike
Windows could soon let you control how your PC splits memory for gaming and AI
Possibly targeting Nvidia's RTX Spark chip, Microsoft is testing manual unified memory allocation between system, graphics, and AI tasks
Chinese memory firm CXMT relied on leaked Samsung technology to skip years of R&D, court testimony claims
A former Samsung engineer testified the startup lacked basic lab facilities from the start
Cutting corners: Building a memory chip from the absolute ground up takes years and costs a fortune. ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) apparently decided to skip the hard part – and today, the company stands as China's biggest DRAM producer. A South Korean court recently heard some fairly wild details about how the memory maker actually got its start.
G.Skill starts paying buyers $20 to $25 from $2.4 million settlement over misleading RAM speeds
The company also agreed to warn that advertised speeds require overclocking or BIOS adjustments
Best Buy removes 32GB RAM worth $600 to "repair" customer's 64GB gaming laptop
The laptop allegedly only supports up to 32GB of memory
Sony still hasn't decided when the PlayStation 6 will launch
Specs are likely locked in, but the memory crisis has upset everything
Entry-level GPU shortages will get worse in the second half of 2026, warns PC Partner
It warns GDDR6 and GDDR7 constraints will tighten supply and push GPU prices higher through the end of 2026
Intel may refresh Raptor Lake for a third time as high DDR5 prices push buyers toward older hardware
Intel is joining AMD and Nvidia in reviving four-year-old hardware
SK hynix is now Kioxia's biggest shareholder, but taking control won't be easy
Japanese government approval, antitrust scrutiny, and an investment agreement stand in the way
The memory crisis is killing off sub-$100 smartphones as US sales plunge 64%
Smaller brands are raising prices, cutting shipments, or leaving the US market
4GB vs. 8GB VRAM: The 1080p Benchmark
AMD is launching a 4GB GPU in 2026, so we revisited the Radeon RX 6500 XT to see how 4GB and 8GB versions compare in modern games. The results are predictably ugly.
