Tag:memory

Kingston leads global memory revenue chart, with colossal 62% market share

DRAM module revenue surges 59% year-on-year as demand strengthens, reaching $21.2 billion in 2025, with Kingston growing 48% in that time.

Next-gen Nvidia GPUs could use 4GB and 6GB GDDR7 chips, with potentially huge total capacities

A rumour claims that memory makers will release GDDR7 chips with denser capacities than 3GB in 2027 or 2028, offering 4GB or 6GB per module.

G.Skill launches Trident Z5 Royal NeoX DDR5 RAM with EXPO ULL, for those who like shiny things

G.Skill unveils its fancy Trident Z5 Royal NeoX memory kits, available in CL36, CL30, CL28, and CL26 timings, with support for AMD EXPO ULL.

Windows 11 weather app takes 1.2GB of RAM, 5x more than macOS equivalent

Windows 11's built-in weather app wastes loads of RAM, even before any user interaction, due to its web-based design, on top of showing ads.

MSI lets you enjoy low-latency RAM without AMD EXPO ULL, thanks to new BIOS trick

MSI adds a High-Efficiency Mode to its motherboards’ BIOS, allowing you to bring standard DDR5 RAM's latency closer to that of EXPO ULL kits.

RAM price chaos could last until 2030, warns SK Hynix CEO

SK Hynix expects 2027 to be the worst year for memory, forecasting the shortage to last until 2030, as AI demand continues to exceed capacity.

AMD EXPO ULL DDR5 memory boosts frame rates by 4% in first PC gaming benchmarks

G.Skill's AMD EXPO ULL RAM offers a mild but easy-to-access performance boost on Ryzen systems, although you pay a high price for these modest gains.

DDR4 RAM prices expected to soar by over 50%, as demand shifts to last-gen memory

Memory shortages are causing supply chain constraints on older memory and flash products, driving up DDR4 contract prices by over 50% in Q3 2026.

More PC gamers are using 16GB of RAM, and 32GB use drops, as memory prices go through the roof

June’s Steam Hardware Survey shows a slight increase in the number of systems with 16GB of RAM, while the share of 32GB machines has fallen.