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Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron sued over alleged DRAM price fixing amid record memory costs — lawsuit claims coordinated HBM shift was cover to curtail DDR3 and DDR4 production

… The named plaintiffs include 14 individuals and three small PC businesses, among them Troy's Computers and Florida repair outfit My Florida PC, and they cite Apple's recent iPad and Mac price increases as evidence of the squeeze. …

Jun 29, 2026 · Luke James

Samsung meeting transcripts show memory workers offered incredible 607% bonus worth $477,000, while logic chip staff get as little as 50% — union says misbalance 'creates a retention crisis the company cannot afford'

… Go deeper with TH Premium: AI shortages AI data centers are swallowing the world's memory and storage supply Chip scarcity assaults auto industry amid the worsening Nexperia and DRAM crisis Samsung and SK hynix shorten memory contracts as pricing power shifts back to suppliers Memory makers are set… …

May 18, 2026 · Luke James

Chinese memory maker CXMT enters mainstream consumer memory with Corsair Vengeance DDR5 kit — Chinese-made DRAM emerges as an antidote for crushing shortages

… Until now, CXMT has only really sold to local businesses and lesser-known brands, but being featured in a Corsair kit marks a major shift in the landscape. …

May 22, 2026 · Hassam Nasir

Micron inks long-term supply agreements worth $100 billion — says it has no idea when RAM crisis will end

… 16 LTAs is a lot for this kind of arrangement, and this looks like a business model shift for the company. …

Jun 25, 2026 · Anton Shilov

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

… "We urge the Administration to work with memory chipmakers and chip buyers to assess steps that can be taken to address this imbalance in the memory market and protect against harm to consumers, workers, and businesses of all sizes," the letter states. …

Jun 5, 2026 · Etiido Uko

8GB of RAM is back on laptops — companies are lowering memory offerings to make affordable notebooks during component crisis

… Go deeper with TH Premium: AI shortages AI data centers are swallowing the world's memory and storage supply Chip scarcity assaults auto industry amid the worsening Nexperia and DRAM crisis Samsung and SK hynix shorten memory contracts as pricing power shifts back to suppliers Memory makers are set… …

Jun 4, 2026 · Andrew E. Freedman

SMI's PCIe 6.0 SSD controller for consumer SSDs coming next year, but severe NAND shortages will get even worse in 2027 as AI data centers swallow supply — An interview with Silicon Motion's SVP Nelson Duann

… At least on your side of the business. Nelson Duann: There were two main drivers behind the growth of our business unit in the first quarter. …

Jun 16, 2026 · Anton Shilov

Apple reportedly lobbies Uncle Sam for access to Chinese memory chips — tech giant allegedly wants to buy from blacklisted CXMT

… Instead, it's listed in the 1260H list, which still designates it as a Chinese military company, and doing business with it would cause major reputational damage to an American company. …

Jun 27, 2026 · Hassam Nasir

Executives are cutting jobs for an AI future that hasn't fully arrived yet, even as productivity gains remain difficult to prove — data neither confirms nor refutes an AI unemployment apocalypse

… It also found that 67% of companies are still primarily planning or piloting AI rather than scaling it across the business. …

Jun 8, 2026 · Etiido Uko

Onsemi buying cash-strapped Synaptics in $7 billion all-stock deal — smart power meets edge AI hardware

… While the company has other businesses too, they are by far not as significant as power and sensors. …

Jun 26, 2026 · Anton Shilov

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