With the AI giants devouring the market for memory chips, PC prices are set to skyrocket. Here's what I think laptop shoppers ...

A.I. companies are buying up memory chips, causing the prices of those components — which are also used in laptops and smartphones — to soar.

Memory used to be the easy part of a PC or phone upgrade, the line item you barely noticed on the receipt. That era is over. A global crunch in Random access memory is pushing prices sharply higher, ...

Micron, SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics — make up nearly the entire RAM market, and they're benefitting from this shortage.