How and When the Memory Chip Shortage Will End

If it feels these days as if everything in technology is about AI, that’s because it is. And nowhere is that true than in the market for computer memory. Demand, and profitability, for the type of DRAM used to feed GPUs and other accelerators in AI data centers is so huge that it’s diverting the supply of memory away from other uses and causing prices to skyrocket. According to Counterpoint Research, DRAM prices have risen 80 to 90 precent so far this quarter.