… The year-over-year price is shocking, almost hitting a 500% price hike, which shows just how much demand there is for DRAM due to the AI supercycle. …
Major CPU manufacturers such as Intel, AMD & MediaTek are boosting their CPU production, but prices continue to rise. CPU Makers Boost Production, But This Won't Change Current Pricing Trends & Shortages Agentic AI demand has prompted a CPU shortage that has further led prices to increase. …
… Recently, it was Maingear and Framework that announced price hike s a couple of times. ASUS also announced price hikes due to higher memory and SSD costs, and now it's Acer's turn, which has also announced a price revision. …
… The reason for this price bump is attributed to a tighter supply, which is caused by reduced production of older products and an increased demand from larger cloud enterprises. At the same time, Micron & SanDisk have also announced price bumps for their respective products. …
… Currently, nothing is safe from ongoing price hikes. Raspberry Pi modules have also seen price hikes, and we have seen major manufacturers such as Samsung end LPDDR4/X production , further stressing the low-end markets. …
… The higher SSD and RAM prices have forced almost all OEMs to increase the prices for the products, and we recently saw LG increasing its Gram laptop prices by as much as $400 . …
… We expect that the prices will only go upwards from here, which is why ASUS is reportedly working to increase the production of DDR4 motherboards in early 2026. …
… This should help place TSMC's decision to convert its 4nm production lines within some much-needed context. And, we give the final word to Xiaomi's President, Lu Weibing, who recently noted : "The magnitude of this round of memory price increases has indeed far exceeded expectations. …
… Tesla's latest request for increased production is evidence that even leading Big Tech firms are struggling with memory supply. With commodity DRAM and other memory supply shortages becoming widespread and prices surging, preemptive action was unavoidable. …
… Even though the highest-performing AI chips require HBM, the market shortage has also affected prices for other memory chips, such as DDR5, due to reallocation of production capacity. …