The price of remembering just went up. Not the human kind — the silicon kind. DRAM, the volatile memory chips that let your phone juggle apps and your laptop run spreadsheets, is getting significantly more expensive. And the cost increases are already landing on consumer price tags. Samsung’s newest Galaxy S25 lineup and Microsoft’s Surface laptops are among the first high-profile casualties. According to TechRadar , the memory components inside these devices have surged in cost, and manufacturers are passing that burden downstream — to you. The pattern isn’t new. But the scale of this latest cycle, and its timing alongside rising demand for AI-capable hardware, makes it particularly painful. DRAM pricing is cyclical by nature. The market swings between glut and shortage with a regularity that would be almost comical if billions of dollars weren’t at stake.…