The Global Memory-Chip Shortage Will Cost Us All

AI companies’ need for a once obscure and affordable type of microchip threatens to drive up prices of all electronics—and ...

RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives

Big Tech’s AI-fueled memory shortage is set to be the PC industry’s defining story for 2026 and beyond. Standalone, direct-to ...

Micron and Sandisk Stocks Are on a Roll. This Is the Latest Memory-Chip Catalyst.

Micron director Mark Liu bought 23,200 of the memory chip maker’s shares on Tuesday and Wednesday. (Justin Sullivan/) ...

SK Hynix's unique way of chopping cells in two is a big step in making PLC flash memory chips viable and could offer a solution to ballooning SSD prices

Flash memory cells work by using a large voltage to effectively ram electric charge across an insulated gap. Once there, it ...

As AI Eats Up The World’s Chips, Memory Prices Take The Hit

At CES 2026, sleek new laptops dazzled—but soaring memory costs driven by AI chip demand threaten to make everyday PCs ...

DRAM, SSD shortages could last months to years, vendors say

CES 2026 is where DRAM and SSD makers were able to come together, face to face, to discuss the ongoing shortages in memory ...
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Modeling the Operation of Charge Trap Flash Memory: A Monte Carlo Approach to Carrier Distribution and (De)trapping

Abstract: We propose a Monte Carlo framework including (de)trapping to describe the non-equilibrium operation of charge trap flash memories. We thereby base the empirical carrier distribution that was ...