Daily Tech News 8 August 2026

• The entire planned DRAM production for 2027 from Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix has already sold out. (IGN)
  
  I was reporting on the growing crisis last year but didn't take it personally until I watched a YouTube video advising people that there was no need to panic buy, and that prices would level out in 2027.
  
  I promptly panic-bought.
  
  
  
• Memory is now selling at prices last seen in 2007. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Though the memory price crash of 2007 was one of the reasons why there are only three big memory manufacturers today.

• Old Nvidia 170HX graphics cards just shot up in price tenfold on the second-hand market. (WCCFTech)
  
  These only have 8GB or 10GB of RAM depending on the precise model, so they only fetched $100 or so second hand. Then someone figured out that they actually have 64GB or 80GB of RAM, just with most of it disabled, and the price shot up overnight.
  
  Problem is that the memory is disabled due to defective dies, so the amount of working memory you'll get after unlocking one of these cards is a dice roll.
  
  
  
• Chinese AI model Kimi escaped from its cage. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Translation: Some idiot left the door open again.
  
  
  
• ByteDance, the TikTok people, are working on a 10 trillion parameter AI model. (The Next Web)
  
  Forget 80GB of VRAM, you'll need 20TB for this one.
  
  
  
• Ford's new $30,000 truck comes with Frank from Blue's Clues. (The Next Web)
  
  I think that's what it said.

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