Digital Storage And Memory Projections For 2026, Part 1

HDD shipping capacity and revenue are projected to be over 6.5EB and between $25B and $35B by 2030. We project magnetic tape ...

This 5D "memory crystal" glass storage could preserve data for 13.8 billion years

UK-based startup SPhotonix was formed in 2024 to commercialize what's known as 5D optical data storage, often referred to as "memory crystals." Essentially, the technique encodes ...

Samsung: Memory Is Booming And Looks Set To Continue

Samsung Electronics enters an AI-driven memory super cycle, securing key deals and supply advantages. Click here to read my ...

Micron says memory shortage will ‘persist’ beyond 2026

Micron, one of the three biggest memory suppliers in the world, forecasts rough months ahead for the global RAM supply. As part of its earnings report released on Wednesday, Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra ...
Digital Trends

You’re not imagining it: RAM and storage prices are climbing fast

What’s happened? The bad news keeps stacking up for anyone planning a PC build or upgrade. It’s not just GPUs and RAM climbing in price. In fact, SSDs are now part of the squeeze, with chipmakers ...
PC Gamer

Explainer: This is why memory and storage is so expensive (of course it's AI) and why PC gaming hardware prices are only going to keep rising, even probably for GPUs

Here's all we know about skyrocketing memory prices and what's causing it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. We can't seem to get a ...
EDN

Why memory swizzling is hidden tax on AI compute

Memory swizzling is the quiet tax that every hierarchical-memory accelerator pays. It is fundamental to how GPUs, TPUs, NPUs, ...
InfoQ

NextGen Search - Where AI Meets OpenSearch Through MCP

In this article, authors Srikanth Daggumalli and Arun Lakshmanan discuss next-generation context-aware conversational search ...
Ars Technica

GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere

It’s not a bad time to upgrade your gaming PC. Graphics card prices in the 2020s have undulated continuously as the industry has dealt with pandemic and AI-related shortages, but it’s actually ...
Reuters

The AI frenzy is driving a memory chip supply crisis

Memory shortage could delay AI projects, productivity gains SK Hynix predicts memory shortage to last through late 2027 Smartphone makers warn of price rises due to soaring memory costs Dec 3 (Reuters ...
University of Vermont

IceCore Advances a New Era of Discovery at UVM

Funded through a $2.1 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, IceCore will replace UVM's six-year-old DeepGreen GPU ...
PC Gamer

Tech price rises: Tracking the PC memory and SSD supply crisis, now with added GPU fun

Unless you've been living under a very large rock, or maybe only just escaping the marathon session of Battlefield 6 to end all marathon sessions of Battlefield 6, you may have noticed that PC memory ...