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AI's compute buildout starts pricing itself into ordinary memory chips

The Verge, Oct 10 · read the original

Memory makers keep redirecting DDR4 and DDR5 capacity toward AI data centers, squeezing consumer supply back toward chips PC builders had already moved past, landing the same week a 128GB unified-memory laptop configuration already shows out of stock.

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