Is the RAM Crisis Overblown? Acer CEO Plays Down Memory Shortage and Declares that It's 'Impossible' for It to Last Until 2030

Is the RAM crisis overblown? Acer CEO plays down memory shortage and declares that it's 'impossible' for it to last until 2030

We've had a lot of negative talk about the RAM crisis recently — so it's good to hear something a bit more optimistic.

Acer’s CEO Says the Memory Crisis Won’t Last Another Four Years!

TECH NEWS – This may be an optimistic statement, but it’s clear that the crisis will continue to impact our wallets for at least another year.   We’re all waiting for PC component prices to drop, but current trends clearly show that we’re far from that point. We report on new price changes for PC components almost every month. Whether it’s DDR5 RAM, SSDs, or GPUs, the AI boom seems to have affected everything. On top of that, TSMC’s latest price…

Acer CEO says PCs will be up to 20% more expensive in Q4 2026, but it's "impossible" that shortages will last

Last Updated on September 21, 2026 PC hardware has already become significantly more expensive because of rising memory and storage costs, and things could get even worse before they start improving. Acer Chairman and CEO Chen Chun-shen (known as Jason Chen) expects PC prices to increase again during the fourth quarter of 2026, with the ...

When Will PC Prices Drop? Acer Points To A Surprising 2027 Turning Point

In a statement originally reported by Taiwanese news site United Daily News, Acer Chairman Chen Chun-sheng has predicted a pricing recovery for the PC market as early as Q3 2027, decrying a decade-long shortage as "impossible." Seeing as Acer is one of the biggest, most successful prebuilt PC and laptop providers out there, this is an unexpectedly