Lilbits: Rising RAM prices are taking a toll on PCs, tablets, game consoles, and more

Meanwhile, AI data centers will mop up 70% of all memory chips produced this year.

Should memory manufacturers be doing more to increase production capacity? Is it right that consumers now face this 'AI-flation' in tech products?

Tech giant Apple hiked on Thursday the prices for its iPad and MacBooks, saying it could no longer protect customers from rising memory and storage chip...

A surge, dubbed by some experts as ‘RAMageddon’, has been driven by a boom in AI data center construction

"The company briefly took down its Apple Online Store early this morning..."

Apple has increased U.S. prices across its MacBook and iPad lineups, with some models now costing as much as $300 more.

Apple has hiked prices on some of its most popular products, including the MacBook and iPad, because of the rising costs of memory and storage chips sparked by the AI boom.

iPhone prices haven't risen, for now.

By Emily Bary and Christine Ji

The price increases are largely unprecedented, with no equivalent in Apple’s modern history of sweeping hikes across much of its product line.

Apple’s prices have finally been affected by the RAM crisis.

Apple raised prices on several MacBook and iPad models after CEO Tim Cook warned that surging memory and storage costs had become unavoidable, as AI data centers fuel a component…

Apple hiked iPad and MacBook prices on Thursday, saying it could no longer “shield” customers from soaring memory and storage chip costs driven by the AI industry's rapid and…

The price hikes affected multiple Apple products, including the MacBook Neo, which increased from $599 to $699.

Apple, Microsoft, and Valve announced some difficult prices this week — a sign that this is our new reality.

"Higher-than-expected magnitude of price increases on announced SKUs could drive pressure..."

Lilbits: Rising RAM prices are taking a toll on PCs, tablets, game consoles, and more

Apple said it is raising prices on several product lines because of increasing costs for memory, causing its stock price to drop later in the day.

Apple's Macs and iPads and Microsoft's Xbox consoles are getting more expensive - blame AI - SiliconANGLE

Microsoft and Apple are raising prices for Xbox consoles, Macs and iPads as the AI boom sends memory chip costs soaring, with prices increasing by up to $300 (about €265) and as…