Personal Tech Peace President's Iran war piles more pain on already battered PC market Memory costs were already through the roof - now freight's spiking too, and budget systems face extinction America's war with Iran is jacking up the pressure on computing markets already struggling with memory sh… …
… Memory crunch threatens to kneecap Chromebook shipments Low-cost computers bashed by billion-dollar investment in AI infrastructure Chromebooks, the low-cost computing option popular with education buyers, will be squeezed hardest this year as memory prices spiral out of control. …
… MORE CONTEXT US PC shipments to fall 13% as memory and storage crunch hits budget systems RAM is getting expensive, so squeeze the most from it HPE tweaks T&Cs so the price it quotes may not be the price you pay PCs and phones to get more boring and expensive in 2026 thanks to memory drought That p… …
… R&D and production costs are very high, alongside a price tag that makes it unattainable to the majority of consumers." As well as the cost to consumers, the analyst also noted that Samsung was likely concerned about margin pressures due to surging storage and memory costs. …
… But if profit only tracks in line, the obvious question is how much of that extra growth gets absorbed by memory costs or pricing pressure." Raspberry Pi's results will please shareholders, and its product pipeline appears solid. …
… That compute is tied to a relatively large pool of SRAM memory, which is orders of magnitude faster than the high-bandwidth memory HBM found in GPUs today, but is also incredibly inefficient in terms of space required. Each LPU only has enough die space for 500 MB of on-chip memory. …