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Meta's solution to the global memory shortage is to use DDR4 in a DDR5 server, with a custom chip making the impossible possible
News Alas, this solution won't work for gaming PCs. Not yet, at least.
SK hynix to invest over $60 billion in chip plants in South Korea, but the memory crisis still seems a long way from being over
News That's $52 billion for a NAND plant and $13 billion for a chip packaging plant.
With 32 GB as a minimum and 64 GB as the recommended amount, Cinder City's RAM requirements are all kinds of wrong in today's AI-mangled memory market (update: phew, it's a mistake)
News But hey, at least an RTX 4060 is good enough to meet the recommended GPU specs. Wait, what?
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With the RAMpocalypse set to rage for years, memory kit makers are responding in one of two ways: Do nothing or go hell-for-leather
News Neither response is what the PC industry needs right now.
Memory crisis heads to court: Class-action lawsuit calls Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron DRAM market 'oligopolists', alleging anticompetitive behavior
News 'No outsider can expand output to undercut them.'
The RAM crisis comes for Apple: Mac and iPad prices jacked up by hundreds as company says 'We have never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly'
News Think different (prices).
SK hynix claims it will be able to triple its memory chip output by 2034, roughly 10 years sooner than first projected
News Just in time to solve the current crisis, right?
'The thing that gives me hope is there is an enormous amount of capacity being built' - AMD's head of Ryzen and Radeon is pinning hopes of an end to the memory crisis on a supply ramp into 2028
News And some companies even reckon prices will get worse before they get better.
