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Singapore PC prices surge as growing AI infrastructure competes for components
11+ hour, 56+ min ago (957+ words) Bryan Fun, a sales assistant at retailer Bizgram Asia in Sim Lim Square, checking a newly assembled desktop PC tower. Published Sep 13, 2026, 05:00 AM SINGAPORE – Consumers who plan to buy a new personal computer are in for sticker shock. Latest market…...
Laptop-slinger Framework refunding customers who paid top dollar for RAM
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (473+ words) Laptop-maker Framework has decided to refund some of its customers who paid high prices for its model 13 Pro laptop due to the soaring cost of RAM. In July, the company told some customers who had ordered its very repairable machines…...
The Market Will Be Shaken Even More: Memory Inventories at Samsung and SK hynix Plummet to Critical Levels
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (467+ words) The artificial intelligence boom is to blame. Memory chip inventories at South Korea's largest manufacturers — Samsung Electronics and SK hynix — have fallen to critically low levels. According to Business Korea, citing Kim Dong-won, head of the KB Securities research center,…...
Framework 'retroactively reducing prices' after securing lower-cost memory
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Smartphone & Computer Prices Surge: Young Consumers Pay the New "AI Tax"
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (792+ words) The "wait-for-price-cut" group, who are used to waiting for price reductions and subsidies, have encountered price hikes this year instead. Computers and tablets have also avoided the price surge. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics of China shows that…...
The rise in drive prices is being driven by AI and even HDDs can't hide
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (334+ words) What used to be a painless purchase now makes our eyes water. First it was RAM. Now it's the hard drives. Is nothing sacred? The AI data center boom has transformed once-cheap solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard drives (HDDs) into…...
PC shipments are falling, but manufacturers are making more money selling pricier AI PCs
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (99+ words) The pressure is originating in the AI infrastructure market, where demand for memory chips has driven up component costs and limited supply for other hardware categories....
RAM filler kit without actual memory costs almost as much as 32GB DDR4 a year ago
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (340+ words) Notebookcheck Anyone with a transparent PC case and an interest in case modding and lighting effects will generally want the components inside to look good as well. This has led to the introduction of so-called filler modules. As ComputerBase reports,…...
RAM Prices Soar 485% as Memory Shortage Hits Canada [2026]
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (665+ words) By early September 2026, the shortage has moved past “annoying” into “reshaping how people buy computers.” Retailers are rationing stock. System builders are quoting prices that expire within days. And the two component categories that used to be the cheapest part…...
AI-Driven Memory Shortage Is Pushing Gaming Hardware Costs Higher For Australian Player
5+ day, 22+ hour ago (733+ words) MKAU Gaming The Cryptoplinko editorial team watches digital entertainment markets closely, and the numbers coming out of the memory sector have been hard to ignore. A 16GB RAM chip that once sold for as little as $4.76 has climbed to nearly $60 as…...