SK hynix to invest $712.5 billion in South Korean operations — Cheongju NAND expansion, Yongin Semiconductor Cluster for DRAM detailed

SK hynix announces major plan to spend $712.5 billion in its operations in South Korea, but the only detailed investments are spendings on a new NAND fab and a packaging facility.

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Meta fights soaring hardware costs by reusing old DDR4 server memory in new DDR5-only servers — custom CXL 2.0 chip marries legacy DDR4-2400 with cutting-edge DDR5-6400
 Meta fights soaring hardware costs by reusing old DDR4 server memory in new DDR5-only servers — custom CXL 2.0 chip marries legacy DDR4-2400 with cutting-edge DDR5-6400

Meta develops its custom Vistara CXL memory expander to use DDR4 memory with new servers running AMD EPYC ‘Turin’ processors.

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AMD EXPO ULL RAM drops at jaw-dropping $1,099 despite promises of it being ‘effectively the same price’ — DDR5-6000 C26 32GB kit sports 80% ULL tax
 AMD EXPO ULL RAM drops at jaw-dropping $1,099 despite promises of it being ‘effectively the same price’ — DDR5-6000 C26 32GB kit sports 80% ULL tax

Newegg has started selling G.Skill’s Trident Z5 NeoX memory kits featuring AMD ULL technology, and the prices are already high.

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Lenovo says the ‘RAMageddon’ is the new normal, outlines survival guide — at ISC 2026 an exec said ‘it will never be like it was last year’
 Lenovo says the ‘RAMageddon’ is the new normal, outlines survival guide — at ISC 2026 an exec said ‘it will never be like it was last year’

At the International Supercomputing Conference this past week, Lenovo reportedly said the memory market ‘it will never be like it was last year.’

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Micron inks long-term supply agreements worth $100 billion — says it has no idea when RAM crisis will end

Micron has signed 16 LTAs with various customers to supply DRAM and NAND worth $100 billion.

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Best Prime Day RAM deals 2026 — discounts on DDR5 and DDR4 to beat the memory price crunch
 Best Prime Day RAM deals 2026 — discounts on DDR5 and DDR4 to beat the memory price crunch

We’re rounding up the best RAM deals from retailers across the U.S during Amazon Prime Day 2026.

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2003-era DDR2 memory prices jump up to 60% — AI-driven DRAM shortage reaches the oldest standard still in production

DDR2 contract prices rose 55% to 60% in the second quarter of the year and are projected to climb another 35% to 40% in the third.

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This $339 Corsair 32GB DDR5 RAM kit is the cheapest on sale right now, $45 less than the next-best rival — secure overclockable RGB kit with 6,000 MT/s speeds for a new gaming PC build and beat inevitable future price rises

This 32GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 RAM kit is on sale at Woot for $339.99 right now, $45 less than its next-best rival.
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Chinese memory brands ditch Samsung and Micron for homegrown CXMT and YMTC silicon — Corsair, HP, and Dell are already adopting the China-produced DDR5 chips

Chinese memory brands Gloway and KingBank have begun using homemade chips to produce DDR5 memory kits in lieu of Samsung, Micron, or SK hynix DRAM.
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Nvidia and SK hynix ink multi-year memory co-development and supply agreement — seeks to address extended development cycles

Nvidia and SK hynix have inked a multi-year collaboration agreement under which the companies will co-develop next-generation memory technologies for Nvidia’s upcoming platforms and SK hynix will supply them to Nvidia.
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