What is RAM?Over the past few years, nearly every PC component, including storage drives, graphics accelerators, motherboards, and CPUs, has seen significant performance updates—everything except the ...

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 ...

Intel introduced the consumer market to DDR4 with the introduction of the X99 platform. These are the early days of DDR4, and top kits are in the 3300MHz range, which is quite modest considering DDR4 ...

You can buy a lot of RAM for north of $800, or you can grab the fastest memory kit in the world, Corsair's new 16GB (2x8GB) Vengeance LPX DDR4-4866. It's the only kit officially rated for DDR4-4866 on ...

Hardware PC gaming has a pricing problem, and the memory crisis is compounding it in a way that's utterly heartbreaking for our hobby Memory Explainer: This is why memory and storage is so expensive ...

Sim Lim Square retailers told CNA that the current price hikes are among the highest they have seen in decades.

Prices for DDR5 RAM have more than doubled since November 2025, to the point that for the cost of 64GB, you could buy a PlayStation 5 Pro. Let's all blame generative AI for this one -- the massive ...

The year is 2025. Memory prices have shot through the roof. You’re a system builder who wants to sell PCs to customers. You ...

The root cause of the shortage is the insatiable appetite of Artificial Intelligence. Leading chipmakers, including Samsung, ...

Samsung Co-CEO TM Roh warned Monday that a shortage in computer memory, an essential component of technology hardware, is ...

Major changes to the PC’s RAM subsystem typically occur once in blue moon, but mere years after DDR4’s delayed rollout, that time is upon us yet again. How fast is DDR5? What will I need to run what?