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2 articles First covered Apr 20, 2026, latest Apr 23, 2026

Samsung workers are heading for a strike over SK Hynix's bonus checks

Samsung's union voted to walk out May 21 over a bonus gap that sees SK Hynix engineers pocket roughly 4x more. 200+ have already defected.

TrendForce chart showing Q1 2026 memory contract price increases across DRAM and NAND

Hardware·4 days ago

Why your next RAM kit costs double: the AI memory crunch, explained

DDR5 contract prices jumped 100% since 2025, HBM is eating 23% of DRAM wafers, and the fabs that could fix it don't come online until 2028. Here's the shape of the crunch.