#ram-price-increases

#ram-price-increases

The 13-inch Surface Pro 11 and the 13.8-inch Surface Laptop 7 cost $500 more than their original starting price, going from $999 to $1,499.

As of 11 April 2026, Mac mini configurations with 32GB and 64GB of RAM and Mac Studio configurations with 128GB and 256GB of RAM are listed as 'currently unavailable' on Apple's US online store, with no estimated delivery date and no path to ordering.

Motorola has enacted price increases of up to 50 percent on the rest of its 2026 Moto G lineup, indicating a shift in pricing strategy for budget smartphones.

After Google released its TurboQuant compression algorithm, which can purportedly drastically reduce the amount of memory required for certain AI workflows, stock prices for memory manufacturers dropped significantly.

Zacks Investment Research assigned Micron its top Rank #1 (Strong Buy) rating this morning, citing the company's "significant role in the AI boom" and noting that Micron's 2026 HBM capacity is already sold out, driven by demand from AI chip partners including NVIDIA, Advanced Micro Devices, and Intel.

With shares going for more than 38.0 times trailing price-to-earnings (P/E), I'm personally in no rush to chase the stock, especially with quarterly earnings just under a week away. That said, some big-name analysts have been bold enough to stay in the bull camp. And that's despite the hot, seemingly overheated run, the relatively stretched multiple, and uncertainties clouding the future of AI.

Since the start of 2026, Tesla Inc., Apple Inc. and a dozen other major corporations have signaled that the shortage of DRAM, or dynamic random access memory - the fundamental building block of almost all technology - will constrain production. Cook warned it will compress iPhone margins. Micron Technology Inc. called the bottleneck "unprecedented." Musk got to the intractable nature o f the problem when he declared Tesla is going to have to build its own memory fabrication plant.

AI-driven memory and storage price hikes have been the defining feature of the PC industry in 2026, and hobbyists have been hit the hardest-companies like Apple with lots of buying power have been able to limit the price increases for their PCs, phones, and other gadgets so far, but smaller outfits like Valve and Raspberry Pi haven't been so lucky.