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Qualcomm aims Snapdragon C laptop chip at the budget laptop segment, as manufacturers feel the DRAM squeeze — analysts warn sub $500 laptop market may disappear before 2028

…Qualcomm has disclosed little else; core counts, clock speeds, neural-engine throughput, the manufacturing node, and the supported memory type were all absent from the announcement , with the company saying it would…

Jun 1, 2026 · Luke James

In a troubling sign, Nvidia RTX 50 series prices jump up to 30% in South Korea — TSMC wafer hikes and $20 GDDR7 modules push RTX 5090 past $5,100

…20% compared to existing levels, and other manufacturers are also preparing for price increases of up to around 30%." High-end graphics cards with larger GDDR7 memory configurations are expected to see…

Aug 3, 2026 · Kunal Khullar

Chinese memory brands ditch Samsung and Micron for homegrown CXMT and YMTC silicon — Corsair, HP, and Dell are already adopting the China-produced DDR5 chips

…From DDR5 to future ICs High-bandwidth memory roadmap Here's why HBM is coming for your PC's RAM Chinese manufacturers such as CXMT, which produces chips for memory, and YMTC…

Jun 17, 2026 · Zhiye Liu

Industry coalition urges Trump administration to take urgent action as AI data centers' extreme memory consumption threatens other industries — AI-driven memory chip shortage could raise prices in automotive, medical, telecommunications sectors

…The warning arrives as memory manufacturers increasingly prioritize high-bandwidth memory (HBM), the specialized memory used in AI accelerators from companies such as Nvidia and AMD. Demand for HBM has surged over…

Jun 5, 2026 · Etiido Uko

Memory famine compels GPU vendors to re-release 2020 graphics cards — GeForce RTX 3060 and GeForce RTX 3050 return to Asian market

The memory drought continues to affect manufacturers of the best graphics cards and everyday consumers hoping to upgrade their systems. However, it seems to have impacted some vendors more severely than others…

Jun 11, 2026 · Zhiye Liu

Production of DDR4 memory and motherboards is restarting amid unprecedented memory shortages — PC industry preparing for a world without DDR5

…From DDR5 to future ICs High-bandwidth memory roadmap Here's why HBM is coming for your PC's RAM We confirmed with over half a dozen sources: motherboard manufacturers and module…

Jun 4, 2026 · Paul Alcorn

Kioxia and Sandisk sample world's densest 3D NAND — new 332-Layer beats Samsung’s 400-Layer NAND

…manufacture their BiCS9 and BiCS10 3D NAND products at different production sites. The newest Fab 2 facility in Kitakami, Iwate Prefecture, will handle production of the flagship 332-layer BiCS10 memory, while…

Jul 7, 2026 · Anton Shilov

TSMC is reportedly hiking prices for 'all advanced nodes,' accounting for 74% of the company’s wafer business — Nvidia, AMD, Apple, Qualcomm, and others will face higher wafer costs

…However, when combined with higher memory prices, packaging constraints, AI demand, and rising manufacturing costs, it creates another reason for device makers and component vendors to raise prices or protect margins by…

Jun 24, 2026 · Etiido Uko

Intel hires former SK hynix chief Seok-Hee Lee to lead Intel Foundry advanced packaging — company establishing section as 'focused business with dedicated leadership'

…Tan credited Lee with "deep expertise in leading complex, high-scale technology and manufacturing organizations," and said the hire would help Intel "tightly couple leading-edge logic, memory, networking, and other components…

Jun 19, 2026 · Luke James

CXMT's DDR5 RAM isn't as performant or as consistent as SK hynix dies, early testing shows — reveals resistance to voltage scaling and inferior manual overclocking capabilities

Homegrown DDR5 memory from China, manufactured by ChangXing Memory Technologies , has been making the rounds lately as more and more vendors start legitimizing it. However, new testing from overclocker Safedisk, shared by…

Jul 15, 2026 · Hassam Nasir

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Hyperscalers commit nearly $2 trillion to secure AI hardware and memory — Google leads $811 billion spending surge while Apple trails at $57 billion

Anthropic co-designing custom AI inference chips to bypass costly Nvidia GPUs — Samsung reported as manufacturing partner for Claude maker

Microsoft quietly purges 32GB of RAM recommendations from its website — company reels from the effects of the memory shortage as it released 8GB base models for Surface laptops this year

Three major PC makers now using Chinese memory to fight 'unprecedented memory shortage,' report claims — HP, Asus, and Acer using 'small amounts' of CXMT chips in limited number of notebooks for non-US market