The steep price we pay for digital storage

Early this year I wrote a piece that predicted the rapid increase in price for both SSD storage and RAM components due to supply chain woes. It’s been almost half a year since, and the effects of the memory crisis due to AI are in full effect. Since then, we have said goodbye to the budget phone category — phones below P10,000 — and are now saying hello to premium priced memory cards for our cameras and computers. The global tech landscape has shifted its priorities. With massive data centers gobbling up silicon to train AI models, everyday consumers are […]...

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