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Soaring RAM costs are driving up prices across the tech industry. It may take years to settle down.
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When Apple debuts the next generation of iPhones this week, they're likely to come with an unwanted change: a higher price tag. A price hike from the supply-chain powerhouse would be the clearest sign yet that soaring memory costs have become unavoidable - with no end to the memory crunch in sight.
Call it " chipflation " or " RAMageddon ." The shortage is reversing a decades-long decline in memory costs that helped make consumer electronics more powerful without making them dramatically more expensive. The terms "memory prices" and "memory shortage" appeared in 473 company transcripts last quarter, according to data provided by AlphaSense . The entire industry is seemingly working on the problem. And yet, we're years away from seeing it fixed.
The common wisdom is that AI is at fault: The technology isn't just contributing to higher energy prices and layoffs; it's also helping drive up the cost of everything from smartphones to game consoles.
But the shortage was brewing well before ChatGPT took off - and was then amplified by AI's unending hunger for RAM. The current market is the product of a complicated and very profitable reshuffling of the memory industry within a system that was already failing to keep up.
"We need to build more wafer capacity," Manish Bhatia, president and COO of Micron - one of the three largest memory manufacturers - told The Verge . "[It's] a very different challenge for the industry than it had been for many years before, where technology alone was able to keep up with the demand."
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OpenAI has formed a new independent mathematics advisory group hosted at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton following a surge in automated problem-solving. The move arrives amid mounting academic scrutiny regarding the rapid pace of artificial intelligence in advanced mathematical research.
As debate intensifies over the rapid acceleration of artificial intelligence, OpenAI has proposed a comprehensive framework for international safety standards, focusing heavily on alignment research and recursive self-improvement. The move follows recent high-profile departures and escalating concerns from industry insiders regarding humanity's long-term control over advanced frontier models.
As Washington fiercely debates artificial intelligence oversight, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has emerged as President Donald Trump's top confidant, successfully pushing back against growing regulatory pressures. While rival tech executives advocate for government slowdowns, the head of the world's most valuable chipmaker is charting a rapid course for American tech supremacy.
