RAM: The memory crisis you won’t forget

“RAMageddon” is “coming for everything you care about,” said Sean Hollister in The Verge. Anything with a computer in it—your phone, your car, your thermostat—depends on random-access memory (RAM) to store data or serve as short-term memory, and its price has “tripled, quadrupled, even sextupled,” over the last year. Consumer-electronics margins are already razor-thin, so get ready for higher prices or delayed product launches. Every major laptop maker is “planning price hikes of 10%, 20%, or...