BUZZING· 78%8m·2026-07-10·TechnologyMonologue: Blame AI For Making Everything More Expensive
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how AI is inflating the price of memory across the board by diverting fab capacity to building high bandwidth memory for GPUs, and how this situation may end in disaster for everyone involved. GamersNexus: The DRAM Cartel…
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