Cooler Master and G.Skill are launching "MasterDIMM" — a new line of DDR5 memory sticks that comes enveloped in a stylishly-thick black and gold heatsink that features a blower fan. Two RGB stripes run along the top to add even more flare to a product that can't be anything other than overpriced.

Higher memory prices are expected to make their impact on the PC and server markets in the second half of this year and the first quarter of 2027, says investment bank UBS. The bank discussed computer hardware firm Dell in an investment note where it bumped the share price target to $440 from $243 and lifted the firm's earnings estimates for the fiscal years 2027 and 2028. UBS' coverage came after Dell's fiscal first quarter earnings report saw it post an 88% annual revenue growth on the back of a 757% AI server revenue bump. Memory Pressure On Dell's Server […]

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South Korean chip startup XCENA is betting that AI's real bottleneck is not compute, but memory.

Is the answer to the RAM crisis Chinese-made DRAM that's much cheaper to source since those companies aren't tied up in AI data center contracts? It's too early to say yet, but when a manufacturer as big as Corsair starts using DDR5 modules from ChangXing Memory Technologies (CXMT), that notion gains a lot of merit.