The Global Memory-Chip Shortage Will Cost Us All

AI companies’ need for a once obscure and affordable type of microchip threatens to drive up prices of all electronics—and ...

The Daring Attempt to End the Memory Shortage Crisis

The supply shortage of the RAM needed to build phones and PCs isn’t going away. But a few companies have a plan to solve it.
Cybernews

The RAM-ifications of AI: how AI is making your computers and phones more expensive

The RAM shortage has caused prices to surge, increasing by 150% throughout the last year. In this article, I explain how this ...
Communications of the ACM

The Impersistence of Memory

“Imagine a computation that produces a new bit of information in every step, based on the bits that it has computed so far. Over t steps of time, it may generate up to t new bits of information in ...
Quanta Magazine

For Algorithms, a Little Memory Outweighs a Lot of Time

One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling discovery about the relationship between time and memory in computing.
Science Daily

Battery-like computer memory keeps working above 1000°F

Computer memory could one day withstand the blazing temperatures in fusion reactors, jet engines, geothermal wells and sweltering planets using a new solid-state memory device developed by a team of ...