A new memory chip company backed by SoftBank just signed a deal with Intel to build next-generation computer memory.

Micron, SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics — make up nearly the entire RAM market, and they're benefitting from this shortage.

A.I. companies are buying up memory chips, causing the prices of those components — which are also used in laptops and smartphones — to soar.

Investors’ hunt for the next winners of the AI trade comes as the long-running rally in megacap tech stocks, which has driven ...

The Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities in 2018 exposed computer memory as an easy target for hackers to inject malicious code and steal data. The aftermath spurred the adoption of memory-safe chips ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

Computer memory and storage have always followed the Law of Closet Space. No matter how much you have, you shortly discover that it isn’t enough. So it’s good news that scientists in Switzerland are ...

Computer technology has evolved rapidly and continues to do so. It is now reaching a point, where users may not even own ...

Across the computing industry, computer memory (both in the form of RAM and flash storage) has only been getting ...

Eight gigabytes of VRAM is probably inadequate in 2026, but does that apply to system RAM as well? Let's run through what a ...