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The global chip shortage is causing DRAM spot prices to rise drastically, which is bound to have a real impact on one of the most common pieces of office and home equipment around: the printer.

SK Hynix is investing in extreme-ultraviolet lithography (EUV) machines to fabricate its 1a nm DRAM products. With recent reports from TrendForce about the rise in DRAM pricing, this will be good news to the industry.

As fallout from the pandemic and work-from-home realities continue to plague the industry, TrendForce predicts the next category to feel the crunch will be DRAM. Professional buyers should expect to see server DRAM prices rise as data center providers drive demand.

Market analysts estimate that DRAM and NAND sales will top global electronic components sales with total revenue of over $120.3 billion.

In today’s hyper-connected marketplace, manufacturers need components that can sustain high levels of bandwidth with an absolute minimum of lag. Accordingly, Micron Technology developed its second-generation common input/output reduced-latency dynamic random access memory (CIO RLDRAM 2) chips. By implementing the memory device in their systems, developers can benefit from better than DDR3 performance with the ease of use of an SRAM-like interface.