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Jeremy Laird

A Japanese retailer is now restricting PC memory purchases, so is it time to properly panic?

A promotional image from Team Group, showing four sticks of its T-Force DDR5 RAM in a motherboard.

We've been reporting plenty on the ongoing memory shortage, supposedly thanks to the AI boom, including data indicating that prices went up 30% in a week and 170% in a year. Now it seems things have gotten so bad, at least one retailer in Japan is actually placing restrictions on purchases.

PC Ones announced on X that, "due to the recent shortage of memory supply, our store has implemented purchase restrictions on some memory products."

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