As we all know, the price of computer memory has been increasing because the demand for it is now much higher than what memory manufacturers can produce.
It also didn't help that the world's third largest memory manufacturer, Micron, said that they were closing the Crucial consumer memory brand and would focus on producing memory for data center and artificial intelligence systems only.
Recently, it was reported that Dell will start increasing the price tags for their laptops as early as mid-December due to the issue. In November, Dell Chief Operating Officer Jeff Clarke said that he had never seen component prices increase this sharply, and this forced Dell to increase the prices of their devices as soon as possible.
In fact, Lenovo, which was previously reported to have bought a large supply of memory components, said that they would have to start increasing the prices of their devices as early as January 2026.
HP also said that if memory prices do not fall in the near future or in the medium term, they will also be forced to increase the prices of their products by the second half of this year.
Meanwhile, the rising price of memory has also made the cost of developing laptops more expensive. Where the cost of memory and storage in laptops used to account for 10-13 percent of the cost, that figure is now seen increasing to 23 percent now because of these components alone.
The trend of AI eating up all memory resources is expected to continue for at least the next year, with companies like OpenAI, NVIDIA, Google and AWS all seen needing more memory to produce powerful AI supercomputers.