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

ï½¢ 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. ï½£
https://mashable.com/article/sony-sd-card-sales-suspended-memory-shortage

#sdcard #memoryshortage #ai #datacentera

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

A sign of the times.

Mashable

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 […]

#bookshopOrg #ereader #leaks #lilbits #memory #memoryShortage #onn4kStick #pixel11 #pixel11Pro #sdCard #sony #stroage #wildcatLake Read more: https://liliputing.com/lilbits-intel-wildcat-lake-specs-leaked-pixel-11-and-onn-4k-stick-leaks-and-would-you-buy-a-bookshop-org-ereader/

"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

Sony suspend la vente de certaines cartes mémoires, l'IA fait de nouvelles victimes

Sony a suspendu les commandes de presque toutes ses cartes mémoire CFexpress et SD depuis le 27 mars 2026. On parle des cartes CFexpress Type A, Type B et des cartes SDXC/SDHC.

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

Qwen3.5 35B A3B can read/interpret ""-M--EM---O-R-Y -----G-A---M-E --". ✅
NOTE: I guess it is important to test without the full context with tweaking it a bit, otherwise it may grab the info from the album. #LLM #memoryshortage
SK Group Chairman Choi Tae-won reveals SK Hynix is reviewing US ADR listing to broaden investor base, projects memory supply shortages exceeding 20% through 2030, and announces plans to unveil DRAM price stabilization measures while maintaining production focus in Korea due to established infrastructure advantages.
#YonhapInfomax #SkHynix #AdrListing #DramPrices #MemoryShortage #JensenHuang #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=110319
SK Group Chairman Choi Tae-won Says SK Hynix Reviewing US ADR Listing, to Unveil DRAM Price Stabilization Plan

SK Group Chairman Choi Tae-won reveals SK Hynix is reviewing US ADR listing to broaden investor base, projects memory supply shortages exceeding 20% through 2030, and announces plans to unveil DRAM price stabilization measures while maintaining production focus in Korea due to established infrastructure advantages.

Yonhap Infomax
RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one to create a performance illusion — 1+1 'value pack' offers desperate psychological relief as the memory shortage worsens

Filler RAM won't make your system run any better, but it'll at least make it look good.

Tom's Hardware
Korea Display Industry Association Chairman Lee Choong highlights AI expansion as catalyst for OLED growth opportunities, while warning of mounting economic volatility from memory shortages and Middle East conflict escalation threatening second-half outlook
#YonhapInfomax #KoreaDisplayIndustryAssociation #OLED #ArtificialIntelligence #MemoryShortage #SamsungDisplay #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=109526
Display Industry Chief Lee Choong - 'Displays Are 'Face of AI'... New Opportunities Ahead'

Korea Display Industry Association Chairman Lee Choong highlights AI expansion as catalyst for OLED growth opportunities, while warning of mounting economic volatility from memory shortages and Middle East conflict escalation threatening second-half outlook

Yonhap Infomax
Global smartphone shipments are projected to fall 12.4% in 2026 due to a severe memory supply crunch, according to Counterpoint Research. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/technology/global-smartphone-shipments-decline-2026-memory-crunch-xs2s9phg?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #SmartphoneMarket #GlobalShipments #MemoryShortage #TechIndustry
Worldwide Smartphone Market to Decline 13% in 2026, Marking the Largest Drop Ever Due to the Memory Shortage Crisis, according to IDC

Worldwide smartphone shipments are forecast to decline 12.9% year-on-year in 2026.

IDC