If you've noticed laptops, phones and tablets getting more expensive without actually getting any better, you're not imagining it. As I explain in my article What does the RAM crisis mean for creatives?, the world is suffering a severe shortage of RAM, the memory chips that all devices need to run smoothly.
Demand from AI data centres has swallowed up so much supply, firms like Apple, Microsoft, Samsung and Dell have all raised their prices – by up to $500 – for devices that haven't changed at all.
