No matter how much memory gets produced by the likes of Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron, there just isn’t enough to go around anymore. With gigantic orders from all the major AI data center builders, there’s now a major shortage of memory chips worldwide—and it’s spiking the prices of DDR memory and NVMe storage by hundreds of percent.

Lenovo is stockpiling RAM to keep prices reasonable , but companies like Raspberry Pi and Framework are being hit hard, and Samsung can’t even buy memory from itself . Micron is ending its Crucial consumer memory brand altogether . With memory prices shooting up, it’s not just memory that’s at risk. We’re already seeing a knock-on effect on products that use memory and storage, and it’s only going to get worse.

Buckle up. The AI-driven memory ap

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