If you’ve been looking to buy a new PC, laptop, or components, you’re probably asking when will the AI boom-cdrive pricing crisis finally end? Unfortunately, there is still no light at the end of the tunnel, and worse still, estimates of when that light might appear keep getting pushed further and further back. Memory manufacturers currently believe prices will remain at these extreme levels for at least another two years. Read more “SSD and memory price to remain high at least until 2029?”
The second quarter has begun, and it has nasty things in store—another round of price increases for RAM and SSDs. In February we discussed a TrendForce forecast, noting that the price surge so far was likely the biggest jump in history. That itself was based just on the increases in Q4 2025 and Q1 2026. But as if those weren’t enough, another drastic price spike is coming now between April and June, making the situation even worse. Read more “Further price hikes of memory and SSDs, up to 75% in spring”
Although memory and SSD prices are currently very high, the it wasn’t nearly as bad in the CPU market—Intel just released the new “Plus” refresh CPUs at surprisingly low pricing, and AMD responded with discounts. Unfortunately, rising manufacturing costs driven by demand for AI hardware will likely hit this segment as well. Both Intel and AMD are reportedly preparing CPU price increases, which will make PCs even more expensive. Read more “Intel and AMD to increase CPU prices by 10–15 %”
Once again, we return to a topic that is probably as popular in the PC world as artificial intelligence (and is close buddies with it): memory prices. TrendForce has released their outlook of how DRAM prices—that is, system memory and graphics memory—are expected to develop in Q1 2026. Unfortunately, it appears that the explosive price surge is not staying, but the three months we are now entering could be the worst yet. Read more “Memory prices to double in Q1 2026 compared to year-end”
Most hardware is getting more expensive and unfortunately graphics cards are joining the trend. According to Asian sources, major board partners are now raising GPU prices due to increasing costs of GDDR6 and GDDR7 graphics memory. In the short term, this is expected to push prices up by 15–20 %. That may not be the final outcome, however, as further increases could be driven by reduced GPU supply due to supply-and-demand dynamics. Read more “Graphics cards to get more expensive, board partners raise prices”
Recently, we reported that Nvidia has likely canceled the new GeForce RTX 5000 Super graphics cards planned for this year, and that the wait for the 6000 generation will also be long, as it is expected to arrive only in H2 2027. For gamers, the situation may get even worse, as the company is now reportedly reducing production of currently available graphics cards as well. A resulting shortage could then push retail prices higher. Read more “Nvidia to cut GPU production by 20%—RTX 5070 Ti going MIA?”
Hardware market is in a dire situation—prices of DRAM have risen severalfold due to insufficient supply, a situation driven by the artificial intelligence craze and the plans of various involved companies to build massive AI server parks costing hundreds of billions. If you are wondering how long this state of affairs may last, Micron, as one of the three largest memory manufacturers, has bad news for you. Read more “Memory price hikes until 2027? Micron says shortage will persist”
Not long ago, we reported bad news about NAND Flash prices. Western Digital announced across-the-board increases for HDDs, and its SanDisk division raised prices for NAND and SSDs built from them. It now looks like that was just the beginning—broad price hikes across the memory market are ahead. Samsung, one of the largest producers, has also announced price increases. And it’s not just NAND and SSDs—things may get worse with DRAM. Read more “Almost like price fixing, memory manufacturers hike prices in sync”
In recent years, hardware has kept getting more expensive—first during the chip shortage and the pandemic, then as wafer suppliers raised prices and the cost of the newest silicon processes continued to rise. Now another markup may be coming: TSMC plans to raise prices for its advanced nodes (5nm and newer), the ones used to make today’s most in-demand hardware. That could push up prices for processors, GPUs, and even whole PCs. Read more “Graphics cards, processors to cost more as TSMC raises prices”
Although Intel still dominates the CPU market share compared to AMD, this is mostly due to the conservative OEM desktop and laptop markets. In the retail CPU segment – especially relevant for gamers – Intel has been taking a beating. Retail sales of the new Arrow Lake / Core Ultra 200 processors appear to be underwhelming, which likely led to an unusual move: Intel has now issued a significant price cut on Arrow Lake chips. Read more “Intel slashes prices of select Arrow Lake CPUs by 25%”
At the beginning of the year, we reported a price drop forecast for SSDs and other storage devices based on NAND Flash memory. Unfortunately, it seems this downward price trend won’t last for long, and the bottom will likely be reached by early summer. After that, the trend is expected to reverse, and prices will unfortunately start to rise again. The window to snag extra terabytes at a bargain prices won’t last long. Read more “SSDs getting cheaper is almost over: Big price jump from summer on”
SSD pricing has been unfavorable form most of the year, with storage becoming more and more expensive ever since the second half of 2023. Fortunately, it seems that the cycle is finally over and prices will hopefully start falling again, according to the SSD market forecast for the last quarter of the year published by market research outfit TrendForce, which has been tracking DRAM and NAND (and with them, entire SSDs) prices for a long time. Read more “Finally cheaper SSDs: A period of falling prices is coming”
A month ago, we published a report here that prices of SSDs (or NAND memory, which is their main component) have stopped their previous price fall and instead, their prices have started to climb up. Unfortunately, it seems that we have to follow with the news that the the pricing of the second key type of memory for computers, which is DRAM, is taking a turn for the worse as well and DDR5 and DDR4 modules will get more expensive too. Read more “After SSDs, RAM prices are going up too, particularly DDR5”
SSDs have been steadily getting cheaper for a long time now, often to prices undreamed of a few years ago. This was due to a slump in PC demand, which left the NAND Flash memory market oversupplied. Beware, however, this price drop seems to have bottomed out and prices are expected to start going up from autumn, or at best stay flat. So the time fo any storage upgrades may be now as SSDs may get more expensive in the coming months. Read more “The days of SSDs getting cheaper are over. Prices are starting to rise”
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