Lenovo stockpiles RAM to (hopefully) keep laptop prices down

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. The world's biggest PC maker is hoping to use its economic might to weather the memory capacity crunch. RAM is getting crazy expensive at the moment. Thanks to a memory supply crunch mostly attributed to the "artificial intelligence" boom and a huge increase in data center demand, prices for consumer-level RAM are so out of control that electronics stores are pricing them like lobster . Lenovo is reportedly stockpiling memory, hoping to avoid huge price changes for its consumer PCs.