All signs point to big laptop and smartphone price increases due to escalating memory shortage

The artificial intelligence boom has become truly unavoidable, even for those who don't use AI in their daily lives at all.Case in point: The world of personal computers, especially laptops and smartphones. We're in the midst of a worldwide memory shortage, due in large part to the sudden explosion of AI data centers around the world and their enormous demand for these computer components. That's sparked an ongoing shortage of crucial hardware such as dynamic random access memory (DRAM), Samsung