Hot Dram! Micron up on memory price spike

Hot Dram! Micron up on memory price spike

Micron is riding year-end wave of price target hikes and ratings hikes, as prices for its core DRAM memory products spike....

Meme of the moment (RAM prices and AI) : Global Nerdy

This one’s going in Saturday’s picdump: Since there are precious few RAM manufacturers and that consumer RAM isn’t where the big money’s at (Micron is closing Crucial, their consumer RAM branch, from whom I bought my most recent RAM stick), most of the production is now being aimed at AI and enterprise data centers, meaning RAM shortages for us ordinary folk. Long story short: If you think prices are bad today, wait a few months. If you can, buy…

2025 RAM Prices Skyrocket Amid AI-Driven Shortages

The RAM Squeeze: AI’s Voracious Appetite Upends Global Memory Markets In the fast-evolving world of technology, few components have seen as dramatic a shift in fortunes as random access memory, or RAM. Prices for this essential building block of computing have skyrocketed throughout 2025, leaving consumers, businesses, and even entire industries scrambling to adapt. What began as a subtle uptick in costs has ballooned into a full-blown crisis, w…

Smartphone Prices Poised to Surge in 2026 because of the AI-Driven Memory Chip Shortage

Memory chip shortages caused by AI Tech giants hoarding DRAM for Data centers could add 8 to 10 percent to the costs of your next smartphone.File Photo: iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro MaxMemory to cost double and make smartphones more expensiveCounterpoint Research is claiming that Memory prices are likely to rise by 30 percent this Q4 2025 and possibly make another increase of 20 percent more early next year. This is on top of the current 50 percent …