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PC gaming has a pricing problem, and the memory crisis is compounding it in a way that's utterly heartbreaking for our hobby
Hard times Money, money, money.
Goldman Sachs research seems to point towards DRAM and SSD prices spiking next year as memory supply lags behind demand
News It looks like all things memory will increase in price quarter-over-quarter.
Samsung rejects the claim that it is negotiating with itself over memory contracts
News The company says such reports are "baseless."
Explainer: This is why memory and storage is so expensive (of course it's AI) and why PC gaming hardware prices are only going to keep rising, even probably for GPUs
Memory blues Here's all we know about skyrocketing memory prices and what's causing it.
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Going ham with RAM: Adata and MSI max out DIMM capacities thanks to clock drivers and SK Hynix stacks flash with DRAM for the ultimate memory chips
News Like we'll be able to afford any of it, the way things are going right now.
'We're facing [what has] never happened before: HDD, DRAM, HBM, NAND... all in severe shortage in 2026' says Silicon Motion's CEO as memory prices continue to soar
News Good news, everyone! I mean, terrible news, everyone!
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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
News And it's not the only RAM and NAND flash maker to significantly bump prices.
SK hynix claims world's first High NA EUV machine for 'mass production' of cutting edge chips, beating Intel to the punch
news A Twinscan EXE:5200B lithography system has been set up in a South Korean fab.
Samsung and SK Hynix, the world's biggest makers of DRAM and flash memory chips, have potentially lost the right to buy US equipment for use in their China-based factories
News It's not a big problem at the moment, but don't be surprised if, at the end of it all, you'll just be paying more for your PC parts.
