How the A.I. Boom Could Push Up the Price of Your Next PC

A.I. companies are buying up memory chips, causing the prices of those components — which are also used in laptops and smartphones — to soar.

The global memory-chip shortage will cost us all

AI companies’ need for a once obscure and affordable type of microchip threatens to drive up prices of all electronics—and ...

Memory stocks soar as investors hunt for new AI winners

Investors’ hunt for the next winners of the AI trade comes as the long-running rally in megacap tech stocks, which has driven ...

Apple warns memory costs are starting to bite as Samsung, SK Hynix prioritise AI chips

By Heekyong Yang and Hyunjoo Jin SEOUL, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Apple said rising memory chip prices had started to pressure ...

Samsung, SK Hynix warn of squeezed chip supplies for PCs, phones due to AI boom

By Heekyong Yang and Hyunjoo Jin SEOUL, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Two of the world's top chipmakers warned on Thursday that computer and smartphone companies were set to bear the brunt of a worsening ...

Apple and others hit by surging memory prices

Hardware companies including Apple Inc. and HP Inc. are under pressure, as their need for expensive memory components becomes an investing risk — one that isn’t expected to reverse anytime soon.
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Samsung, SK Hynix warn of AI chip supply shortage for PCs, phones due to high demand

Two of the world's top chipmakers, Samsung and SK Hynix, warned on Thursday that computer and smartphone companies were set to bear the brunt of a worsening shortage of DRAM chips used in ...
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Micron jumps on rosy outlook as AI boom spurs memory chip demand

(Bloomberg/Dina Bass) — Shares of Micron Technology Inc., the largest US maker of computer memory chips, rose by the most in eight months after the company gave an upbeat forecast for the current ...
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Analysis-Chip Crunch: How the AI Boom Is Stoking Prices of Less Trendy Memory

SEOUL (Reuters) -The global rush by chipmakers to produce AI chips is tightening supply of less glamorous chips used in smartphones, computers and servers, spurring panic buying by some customers and ...
East Bay Times

Tech firms from Dell to HP warn of memory chip squeeze from AI

(Bloomberg/Debby Wu, Dina Bass and Yoolim Lee) — Dell Technologies Inc., HP Inc. and other tech companies are warning of potential memory-chip supply shortages in the coming year due to soaring demand ...

How hair-raising prices for memory chips could take China’s top makers to new heights

Eye-watering DRAM prices are bad news for consumers and smartphone brands, but present an opportunity for Chinese firms led ...
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Memory loss: As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise

The world has a memory problem, thanks to artificial intelligence. The explosion in AI-related cloud computing and data centers has led to so much demand for certain types of memory chips that now ...