News Even DDR2 isn’t safe from the RAM crisis, as legacy memory prices rocket The DRAM market is under such tension that some manufacturers are returning to DDR2 in order to secure enough volume to make their products. …
… Tom’s Hardware reports that Tan has shifted his perception of memory manufacturing as a commodity business to something altogether different. …
AMD News AMD EXPO ULL memory support is now coming to last-gen X670E motherboards While these BIOS updated makes EXPO ULL profiles work as intended, you'll still need to pair your motherboard with brand-new RAM sticks. …
News Lenovo says RAM prices will “probably never” return to 2025 levels The "new normal" of RAM prices will materialise from 2030 onwards, according to Lenovo, as greater manufacturing capacity attempts to stave off high demand. …
… Despite the switch of manufacturing capacity from DDR4 to DDR5 in recent years, the rapidly expanding AI sector, with its insatiable demand, has absorbed much of the available manufacturing capacity. …
News Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI may increase their motherboard prices in Q3 2026 Board makers are facing a trifecta of reduced volumes, stagnant prices, and rising manufacturing costs, at a time when DIY market demand is low due to RAM shortages. …
… Prior to the ongoing NAND shortage, OEMs were able to reliably source stock from memory manufacturers, but this traditional method of procurement has fallen away because of demand from AI data centres. …
News MSI hopes to make DDR5 RAM more affordable, thanks to HUDIMM memory support HUDIMM standard aims to lower the cost of DDR5 RAM for users on tight budgets, amid supply constraints caused by the AI boom.. …
News DDR4 RAM prices expected to soar by over 50%, as demand shifts to last-gen memory While servers and datacentres rely on DDR5 for their main memory pools, DDR4 is also in high demand, as it's used to cache in the high-speed SSDs needed for AI applications. …
News RAM price chaos could last until 2030, warns SK Hynix CEO That's a convenient situation for a company that produces a third of the world's memory chips, but it's rubbish for the rest of us. …