Memory articles

A four-year-old budget CPU is outselling AMD's best gaming chip in some markets

Microsoft's Weather app can eat up to 1.2GB of RAM just sitting open

Memory prices have erased 20 years of progress in a single year, researcher says

SK Hynix is spending $38 billion to build two new chip fabs

Modded Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti with 22GB VRAM is selling on eBay for $500

Apple's A20 Pro production is going smoothly, except DRAM supply is bottlenecking iPhone assembly

Ripple effect: In the run-up to the launch of the foldable iPhone Ultra, iPhone 18, and iPhone 18 Pro, Apple and its assemblers are working to secure enough mobile DRAM. Apple leans heavily on Micron for these chips and also buys from SK Hynix and Samsung. People involved say they still expect to meet initial demand, but they worry online wait times could stretch and store inventory could run out quickly if the shortage continues.

Microsoft removes support page recommending 32GB RAM for gaming PCs

Ripple effect: The global memory shortage is battering the entire IT industry, and PC manufacturing is feeling it most acutely. Microsoft is well aware of the problem – so aware, in fact, that it's now scrambling to walk back its own earlier guidance on how much RAM a gaming PC actually needs.

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.