A global shortage in memory chips sparked by artificial intelligence has dealt a “tsunami-like shock” to the smartphone industry, pushing prices to all-time highs, according to a new report.

A growing procession of tech industry leaders, including Elon Musk and Tim Coo,k are warning about a global crisis in the making: A shortage of memory chips is beginning to hammer profits, derail ...

Apple has reportedly agreed to a 100% price increase to Samsung, purchasing the required LPDDR5X memory chips for ongoing ...

Tim Cook says that the rising cost of RAM and Flash that the industry is facing has not yet affected Apple, but he expects it to be an increasing issue in this quarter, and worse yet in the third ...

Apple almost always gets the better part of any negotiation with its suppliers, but a sketchy report claims that ...

The term “memory wall” was first coined in the 1990s to describe memory bandwidth bottlenecks that were holding back CPU performance. The semiconductor industry helped address this memory wall through ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. This article discusses memory and chip and system design talks at the 2025 AI Infra Summit in Santa Clara, CA by Kove, Pliops and ...