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Clear your Android cache to stop slowdowns, here's how

Android phones rarely slow down overnight. Performance usually erodes in small, frustrating steps as apps pile up temporary ...

Even HDD Prices Are Taking a Hit, But For a Different Reason

After nearly two years of relative stability, the hard disk drive market is facing renewed pressure. A report from Digitimes ...

Framework announces another memory price hike — and it likely won’t be its last

The modular PC company Framework is adjusting the price of its DDR5 RAM modules once again as the cost of memory continues to ...

RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders

Now, as the year winds down, we’re facing price spikes for memory and storage that are unlike anything I’ve seen in two ...

The RAM shortage is here to stay, raising prices on PCs and phones

Your next smartphone or PC might cost more amid a global memory shortage that the International Data Corporation expects to “persist well into 2027.” A new report from the research firm lays out the ...
NDTV

RAM Crisis Worsening? Micron Stops Selling Memory To Consumers For AI Clients

Micron will exit its Crucial-branded consumer memory business by the end of February 2026. The increase in demand for artificial intelligence (AI) hardware has hit the consumer PC market hard by ...
PC World

RAM is so expensive, Samsung won’t even sell it to Samsung

The price of eggs has nothing on the price of computer memory right now. Thanks to a supply crunch from the “AI” bubble, RAM chips are the new gold, with prices on consumer PC memory kits ballooning ...
PC Gamer

It's not just RAM—SSDs could soon cost way more too, and it's all downhill from here

Hardware PC gaming has a pricing problem, and the memory crisis is compounding it in a way that's utterly heartbreaking for our hobby Graphics Cards Nvidia is reportedly looking to cut gaming GPU ...

USB flash drives can work as extra RAM — here's how it works

But wait! You may find the problem eases if you have some extra RAM to hand and you don't need to spend a fortune. By turning ...
Guru3D.com

Memory Drought 2025: TEAMGROUP Halts RAM Quotes — Dramatic Price Hikes Ahead

The memory market may be entering a long-term shortage phase, as major DRAM module vendor TEAMGROUP announced it has stopped issuing price quotes for RAM kits — a move interpreted as a signal that ...
Futurism

AI Data Centers Are Making RAM Crushingly Expensive, Which Is Going to Skyrocket the Cost of Laptops, Tablets, and Gaming PCs

Budget-wise, there have certainly been better times to be a PC gamer in search of higher framerates. For the past few months, RAM prices have been shooting through the roof, as the rapid buildout of ...
GamesRadar+

This new motherboard has DDR4 and DDR5 RAM support, and it took an AI-pricing surge for that to finally become a thing

ASRock is launching a new motherboard that has a total of six DIMM slots (where you install your RAM). Up from the usual four slots found on most mobos, this might seem a little pointless right now.