Hey, so…. RAM is getting crazy expensive at the moment. Thanks to a memory supply crunch mostly attributed to the “artificial intelligence” boom and a huge increase in data center demand, prices for consumer-level RAM are so out of control that electronics stores are pricing them like lobster . Lenovo is reportedly stockpiling memory, hoping to avoid huge price changes for its consumer PCs.

That’s the word out of Bloomberg , citing an interview with Lenovo’s Chief Financial Officer Winston Cheng. He says that the demand is “unprecedented,” which is why prices on consumer memory are jumping up to stratospheric levels, 100 percent or more in just the last couple of months. Lenovo also says it’s stockpiling other “critical components,” probably including microcontrollers and storage. The

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