DRAM surges past price of gold baas
Memory doubles
The price of DRAM has gone full rocket fuel, rising 171.8 per cent year-on-year as AI-fuelled server demand turns the memory market into a warzone.
Intel and AMD jack up CPU prices
Blame AI
Reports from China suggest that Troubled Chipzilla and AMD have hiked CPU prices across multiple product lines this month, catching retailers and distributors flat-footed.
LPDDR5X price explosion as DRAM market tightens
Smartphone makers face rising costs as wafer supply shifts to AI chips
Prices for LPDDR5X, the low-power DRAM used in premium phones, are about to skyrocket.
Samsung gears up for 2nm and HBM4 mass production
Korean giant profits surge
Samsung is charging ahead into 2026 with plans to begin mass production of next-generation memory and chip technologies, including its long-awaited 2nm Gate-All-Around (GAA) process.
AMD pulls an Intel with rebranded Ryzen 10 and Ryzen 100
“New” CPUs are so old they could be steam powered
AMD has once again dipped into the recycling bin, rolling out the so-called Ryzen 10 and Ryzen 100 series, chips that are, in reality, lightly renamed versions of its old Zen 2 and Zen 3+ mobile processors.