If you’ve been shopping for a new computer this year and felt a little sticker shock, you’re not imagining things.

The Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities in 2018 exposed computer memory as an easy target for hackers to inject malicious code and steal data. The aftermath spurred the adoption of memory-safe chips ...

Computer memory prices are climbing faster than gold, creating a global crisis that threatens to make technology significantly more expensive for consumers. DRAM prices have skyrocketed by 171.8% over ...

Buying a desktop computer may seem old-school, but retailers keep selling them for good reason. Compared with similarly priced laptops, they often are more powerful, offer more storage, and let you ...

A RAM slot, also known as a RAM socket, is a long, slim slot on the motherboard of a PC. This allows a RAM module of varying speeds and capacities to be accommodated. Most motherboards have either two ...

Of all the PC-related things to come out of CES this year, my favorite wasn’t Nvidia’s graphics cards or AMD’s newest Ryzens or Intel’s iterative processor refreshes or any one of the oddball PC ...

For those who are just joining us, memory pricing has turned apocalyptic. Case in point, Framework announced it would be ...

The shortage for RAM is causing Framework Computer to preserve inventory. Meanwhile, Lenovo has been stockpiling its own RAM ...

My neighbor's kid was looking at my new computer and said something about needing more memory. That doesn't make sense, does it? A: Taking advice from "Beavis" about computers might not be as crazy as ...

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You may encounter a memory failure error when trying to start your computer. As evident from the error message, this issue is related to your RAM, however, it can be ...