Dell has warned investors and the world that the cost of its dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and solid state drives (SSDs) is set to soar by as much as 20% as it passes rising supply chain costs on to consumers.
The move was announced in the company’s Q1 2025 earnings call this week by Jeff Clarke, the tech giant’s vice-chair and Chief Operating Officer (via The Register), who cited these costs, as well as ‘the lack of capital expenditure, low market utilization, not a lot of wafer starts’ and memory-intensive artificial-intelligence capable servers as the chief reasons.
