A.I. companies are buying up memory chips, causing the prices of those components — which are also used in laptops and smartphones — to soar.

Micron, SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics — make up nearly the entire RAM market, and they're benefitting from this shortage.

Memory used to be the easy part of a PC or phone upgrade, the line item you barely noticed on the receipt. That era is over. A global crunch in Random access memory is pushing prices sharply higher, ...

Smartphone prices are set to rise significantly in 2026 due to the hidden cost of the AI boom. Demand for HBM server memory is causing a severe production shortage of LPDDR5x (smartphone RAM).

Apple CEO Tim Cook says a global memory chip shortage is beginning to bite, with rising costs expected to pressure margins ahead.