1Gen Z Scores Lower on Standardized Tests Than Millennials, Despite More Tech

For most of the 20th century, cognitive performance steadily improved across generations, largely due to expanded access to formal education and improved instructional quality. According to Horvath, ...

Dell shares climb 22% on earnings beat as company navigates rising memory costs

HP CFO Karen Parkhill said on the company's earning call that memory costs have risen roughly 100% sequentially, and the company expects that increase to continue into the fiscal year. Parkhill added ...
New Scientist

Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week

Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications ...

When do you really need to upgrade your RAM? Your guide to navigating a global memory shortage

At the same time, some folks do need to upgrade right now, and so I'll happily give you the best advice I can from reviewing RAM and all sorts of gaming PC hardware for the last three years. When do ...

Why Sierra the Supercomputer Had to Die

For seven years, she ran high-security nuclear simulations for the US government. Now, this famous supercomputer is being put to death.
Computer Weekly

Gartner: Memory price hikes set to hit PC market growth

The expected cost increases for memory are eye-watering, with Gartner predicting a 130% surge in combined dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and solid-state drive (SSD) prices by the end of this year ...
Interesting Engineering

IEEE’s Tom Coughlin on why storage will decide AI’s future

As AI workloads surge, IEEE former president Tom Coughlin outlines how bottlenecks in memory supply and system architecture may quietly steer the industry's next phase.

RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs

In an illustration of the severity of the current memory shortage, HP Inc. CFO Karen Parkhill said that RAM has gone from ...
PCMag

RAM Reality Check: How Much Memory Does Your PC Actually Need in 2026?

The AI hardware boom is sending memory prices sky-high, so knowing exactly how much you need is more critical than ever. I've worked out the most realistic RAM goals for every type of PC.

When smaller means better: How device scaling enhances memory performance

Shrinking ferroelectric tunnel junctions can significantly boost their performance in memory devices, as reported by ...
Tech Xplore

AI energy use: New tools show which model consumes the most power, and why

AI users and developers can now measure the amount of electricity various AI models consume to complete tasks with an ...

There's a shortage of RAM (computer memory). How is this affecting the industry?

There's a RAM shortage at the moment. RAM, as in random access memory. The memory computer keeps immediately at hand, so it can perform tasks quickly. How can that be? Well, as with so much these days ...