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.
WinBuzzer

AI: Memory Bottleneck Emerges as Main LLM Inference Challenge

Google researchers have revealed that memory and interconnect are the primary bottlenecks for LLM inference, not compute power, as memory bandwidth lags 4.7x behind.

Kioxia’s memory is “sold out” for 2026, prolonging a “high-end and expensive phase”

Nakato notes that Kioxia was attempting to increase its manufacturing capacity to meet the elevated demand, saying that it ...
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Memory bottleneck hits hardware maker stocks

The rising costs of memory and storage components are putting pressure on the stocks of hardware makers. Ipek Ozkardeskaya, senior analyst at Swissquote, joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on ...
AppleInsider

Apple's 2026 hardware pricing is under intense pressure from memory & chip inflation

While Apple hasn't done anything yet, the company is heading into 2026 with dramatically escalating memory and chip costs, as it aims to keep product pricing steadier than rivals. The issue matters ...
IEEE

BAM-Net: Hardware Friendly Associative Memory Using Binary Dominant Weights and NAND Logic

Abstract: This paper presents BAM-Net, a hardware-efficient binarization algorithm designed for associative memory (AM) implementation. BAM-Net aims to reduce memory overhead, power consumption, and ...
Science Daily

This new 3D chip could break AI’s biggest bottleneck

Researchers have created a new kind of 3D computer chip that stacks memory and computing elements vertically, dramatically speeding up how data moves inside the chip. Unlike traditional flat designs, ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft rolls out hardware-accelerated BitLocker in Windows 11

Microsoft is rolling out hardware-accelerated BitLocker in Windows 11 to address growing performance and security concerns by leveraging the capabilities of system-on-a-chip and CPU. BitLocker is the ...
BGR

AI Is Going To Make Your Next Computer Cost A Lot More, And It's Pretty Clear Why

Since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots has gone through the roof. In July 2025, OpenAI reported that its AI chatbot, ChatGPT, received over 2.5 billion ...
CNBC

Micron forecasts surging revenue as computer memory demand for AI remains high

Micron Technology reported fiscal first-quarter results that beat Wall Street expectations for sales and earnings per share. Micron shares rose in extended trading. Micron makes memory and solid-state ...
Frontiers

Breaking the memory wall: next-generation artificial intelligence hardware

The relentless advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) across sectors such as healthcare, the automotive industry, and social media necessitates the development of more efficient hardware ...