🔥 First Western Digital, now Sony: The tech giant suspends SD card sales

｢ Sony is suspending orders for almost all SD card sales from both vendors and consumers, per PetaPixel. The announcement was made on Sony's Japanese website, and explicitly blamed the lack of available memory as a reason why it can't fulfill SD card orders for the time being. ｣
https://mashable.com/article/sony-sd-card-sales-suspended-memory-shortage

#sdcard #memoryshortage #ai #datacentera

Lilbits: Intel Wildcat Lake specs leaked, Pixel 11 and Onn 4K Stick leaks, and would you buy a Bookshop.org eReader?

Intel’s Alder Lake-N and Twin Lake processors have been incredibly popular with makers of budget mini PCs, Chromebooks, and other entry-level computers. With up to eight 12th-gen Intel Efficiency CPU cores, these cheap, low-power chips brought big performance gains over Intel’s earlier Atom, Celeron, and Pentium Silver processors.

But they’re starting to show their age, which is why I’ve had […]

"La pénurie de NAND Flash et de DRAM est provoquée par l'IA qui s'accapare la production mondiale de mémoire. Samsung, SK Hynix et Micron priorisent les centres de données qui paient trois ou quatre fois plus cher. Les utilisateurs de cartes mémoire passent après."

https://www.lesnumeriques.com/carte-memoire/sony-suspend-la-vente-de-certaines-cartes-memoires-l-ia-fait-de-nouvelles-victimes-n253643.html #NAND #memoryshortage #pénurie

I think those of us in the Linux world are better positioned to weather this, at least for a short while, since Linux will run just fine on older hardware.

Windows11 forcing everyone to purchase new hardware however, is a problem. We are going to try to put together a Linux PC that will be the image for our public PCs, so that we can continue to use older hardware there, and replace staff PCs. There are some hurdles.

https://www.theverge.com/news/839353/pc-ram-shortage-pricing-spike-news

#MemoryShortage #Tech #Linux #AI #Library #Libraries

RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/fake-ram-bundled-with-real-ram-to-create-a-performance-illusion-for-amd-users-1-1-value-pack-offers-desperate-psychological-relief-as-the-memory-shortage-worsens

#HackerNews #RAMkits #FakeRAM #PerformanceIllusion #MemoryShortage #TechNews

Smartphone Mkt to Decline 13% in '26, Largest Drop Ever Due to Memory Shortage

https://www.idc.com/resource-center/press-releases/wwsmartphoneforecast4q25/

#HackerNews #SmartphoneMarket #Decline #MemoryShortage #TechNews #2026 #IDCReport