By Eduardo Baptista

BEIJING (Reuters) -Nvidia’s move to use smartphone-style memory chips in its artificial intelligence servers could cause server-memory prices to double by late 2026, according to a report published on Wednesday by Counterpoint Research.

In the past two months, electronics supply chains around the world have been hit by a shortage of legacy memory chips as manufacturers turned their focus to high-end memory chips suited to semiconductors designed for AI applications.

But Counterpoint, a technology-focused market research firm, said there is a new problem on the horizon. Nvidia recently decided to reduce AI server power costs by changing the kind of memory chip it uses to LPDDR, a type of low-power memory chip normally found in phones and tablets, from DDR5, which are

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