The AI boom and its impact aren’t letting up, as the trouble it has caused for RAM kits is now affecting motherboard manufacturers.
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Following Lisa Su’s revelation, a disgruntled Redditor predicted: ‘The RAM economy will permanently change and data centers will be a nuisance for the rest of recorded time’.
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Micron has warned on the gravity of the RAM crisis, meaning that every major memory chip maker has now done so.
Apple has weathered the RAM storm pretty well so far, but that could change before long.
Google is giving the Nest Wifi router another round of updates even though the FCC has banned non-US routers.
Some buyers are predictably unhappy about the ‘memory surcharge’, while others welcome the transparency.
‘This is the best scam I’ve ever seen’: repair expert can’t believe how good this fake Nvidia RTX 4090 GPU is.
‘Turning what may have been scrap or low-expectation output into revenue’: Intel’s seemingly found a new way to turn a profit on CPUs, and it’s an ominous sign for pricing.
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Over the past week, we’ve suffered a whole lot more pain with RAM pricing, one way or another — and it’s unlikely to get any better.
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Don’t think you’ll be putting a SpaceX Falcon GPU in your gaming PC rather than an Nvidia, AMD or Intel graphics card.
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