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RAM Price Index 2026: Daily lowest price on DDR5 and DDR4 memory of all capacities
By Zhiye Liu, Stewart Bendle last updated
Check the best prices on DDR5 and DDR4 memory kits of different capacities.

Seven hospitalized after toxic gas fire at SK hynix advanced memory plant
By Mark Tyson published
Thousands of SK hynix employees fled their factory stations earlier today as a fire broke out in a room where fluorine gas was used.

SK hynix unveils 'iHBM' thermal architecture that cools AI memory at the source
By Etiido Uko published
Technology may solve HBM's critical heating problem

768GB of cheap Intel Optane DIMM memory sticks used to run 1-trillion-parameter LLM on a system with a single GPU
By Mark Tyson published
A Redditor has caused a stir by coaxing a workstation build using Optane PMem DIMMs as RAM to run a 1-trillion parameter LLM.

Laser-driven spintronic memory device switches 1,000 times faster than DRAM
By Etiido Uko published
Device achieves picosecond-scale speeds without heat.

Record-high pricing pushes SSD and memory makers to borrow $880 million just to afford buying chips
By Luke James published
Adata is the largest single borrower in the group, having completed a NT$2 billion convertible bond issuance and secured NT$12 billion in bank loans.

Jay Forrester filed the first practical computer RAM patent 75 years ago this week
By Luke James published
Granted as U.S. Patent 2,736,880 in February 1956, Forrester's invention evolved from MIT's Project Whirlwind.

Fully-functional RTX 3070 16GB gets frankensteined into existence by harvesting dead PCBs and RX 6800 XT's VRAM chips
By Mark Tyson published
A tech enthusiast has combined an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 (8GB) with defective memory and an AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT (16GB) with a damaged GPU to make a working RTX 3070 with 16GB of VRAM.
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