Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...

DDR5 memory and SSD prices continue to soar, but I have some ideas for how to save if you're upgrading, building, or buying a new computer in 2026. I have been interested in science and technology for ...

Artificial intelligence is increasing demand for memory chips, processors and other components used in both AI data centers ...

A memory chip shortage is driving up computer prices for consumers, reversing a decades-long drop in hardware costs.

A year ago, a midrange laptop with 16 GB of DDR5 memory sat comfortably below $800 at most major retailers. By spring 2026, ...

The Memory Shortage Strikes Again, This Time With Rising Microsoft Surface Prices ...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - Buying a new computer or repairing an existing one is getting more expensive, as key components like RAM and solid-state drives (SSD) become harder to find and costlier ...

The prices of memory chip stocks are once again on the rise as a global shortage in random access memory (RAM) continues. Over the past five days alone, the share prices of the four largest memory ...

The ongoing RAM shortage is but one of many reasons to direct creative curses at the rise of generative AI—and while sending RAM prices into the stratosphere pales into comparison with some of the ...

Raspberry Pi has already hiked prices on its single board computers in December and this February in response to AI-related RAM price hikes, but now it's trying something new: a configuration built ...

The RAMpocalypse is affecting every corner of computing, but one sector hit particularly hard has been the field of single-board computing (SBC). Systems like Raspberry Pis are particularly vulnerable ...