2026 will probably be remembered by tech enthusiasts as the year RAM prices ruined everything, but at least Microsoft, it seems, will be able to weather the storm. (Think of the shareholders!)
In case you’ve been living under a large slab of silicon, you might’ve heard that memory prices have exploded in recent months, and it’s all because of “artificial intelligence.” The demand for compute from AI-first companies is so impossibly vast, that memory-makers cannot keep up with demand. It’s gotten so bad…

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