The AI gold rush has sent demand—and prices—for computer memory shooting skyward. Here’s how to size your PC’s RAM the smart ...

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

Small and specialist gaming hardware makers tell us how they're enduring, and sometimes even avoiding, the ongoing memory ...

Dell isn't looking to reinvent system memory, but it does want the industry move to what it claims is a superior form factor for today's increasingly thinner and lighter laptops. That's what you're ...

RAM, short for random access memory, is an essential PC component that directly impacts the performance and speed of a PC. It ...

Global memory shortage is lifting laptop RAM prices as AI data centers take more DRAM; learn practical ways to cut upgrade ...

Framework has announced its second price increase for RAM modules in less than a month. The company, known for its modular and repairable laptops, blames this decision on an extreme shortage and ...

Something to look forward to: The original DDR5 standard was released in 2020, and DDR4 memory can still be used with newer CPU and motherboard models. JEDEC, meanwhile, is already working on the next ...

AI-driven memory and storage price hikes have been the defining feature of the PC industry in 2026, and hobbyists have been hit the hardest—companies like Apple with lots of buying power have been ...

DDR4 memory, even though a generation old at this point, is still very capable and can deliver performance levels only slightly behind the newer DDR5. While DDR5 memory continues to make inroads with ...

RAM specifications and clarifications The Mac Pro uses 667MHz DDR2 ECC fully-buffered DIMM (FB-DIMM) memory. it has Eight FB-DIMM slots on two memory riser cards (4 slots per card) supporting up to ...

Problems with RAM We continue to cover an issue where the Power Mac G5 Uniprocessor firmware update makes some units more picky about RAM -- that is, modules that previously functioned properly now ...