AI companies’ need for a once obscure and affordable type of microchip threatens to drive up prices of all electronics—and ...

The United States is escalating its industrial policy fight over computer memory just as global prices are already climbing, ...

The supply shortage of the RAM needed to build phones and PCs isn’t going away. But a few companies have a plan to solve it.

The result: prices for the latest generation of computer memory, DDR5, have skyrocketed. Data from PCPartPicker suggest the price of computer memory has quadrupled in the past six months – spiking ...

Driven by the AI boom, global computer memory prices have entered a record growth cycle, with DRAM increases outpacing gold ...

Hardware companies including Apple Inc. and HP Inc. are under pressure, as their need for expensive memory components becomes ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

The Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities in 2018 exposed computer memory as an easy target for hackers to inject malicious code and steal data. The aftermath spurred the adoption of memory-safe chips ...

Western Digital ( WDC 6.10%) took off like a rocket today, surging 15.8% through 12:25 p.m. ET after CNBC reported on surging ...

Computer memory and storage have always followed the Law of Closet Space. No matter how much you have, you shortly discover that it isn’t enough. So it’s good news that scientists in Switzerland are ...

What if living organisms could perform some of the tasks handled by silicon chips? New research suggests fungal systems can exhibit memory-like electrical behavior, opening the door to unconventional, ...

“Imagine a computation that produces a new bit of information in every step, based on the bits that it has computed so far. Over t steps of time, it may generate up to t new bits of information in ...