RAM is ruining everything
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Memory suppliers are prioritizing AI data centers over PC gaming, causing DRAM shortages and price hikes that will soon affect a wider range of products.
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Memory suppliers just blew a hole in the PC gaming industry - and they're about to do the same to everything else. For weeks, PC enthusiasts have borne the brunt of skyrocketing memory prices, but the shockwaves will soon impact a wider range of products as suppliers pour resources into a far bigger and more lucrative endeavor: AI.
The biggest names in the AI industry are buying up DRAM memory for their sprawling data centers, and memory makers are prioritizing their demands over everyone else's. DRAM is embedded "in every part of our digital society today," Jeff Janukowicz, research VP at IDC, tells The Verge. That's everything from laptop …