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The companies that make RAM and flash memory chips are enjoying record profits<\/a> because of the AI-induced memory crunch\u2014and they\u2019re also indicating that they don\u2019t expect conditions to improve much if at all in 2026. And while RAM kits have been hit the fastest and hardest by shortages and price increases, we shouldn’t expect SSD pricing to improve any time soon, either.<\/p>\n

That’s the message from Shunsuke Nakato (via PC Gamer<\/a>), managing director of the memory division of Kioxia, the Japanese memory company that was spun off from Toshiba at the end of the 2010s. Nakato says that Kioxia\u2019s manufacturing capacity is sold out through the rest of 2026, driving the market for both enterprise and consumer SSDs to a \u201chigh-end and expensive phase.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a sense of crisis that companies will be eliminated the moment they stop investing in AI, so they have no choice but to continue investing,\u201d said Nakato, as reported<\/a> by the Korean-language publication Digital Daily. Absent a big change in the demand for generative AI data centers, that cycle of investments will keep prices high for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n

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