Recently, a Costco in Florida instituted a new store policy. An employee told me that he was asked to open up every desktop computer displayed in the electronics section and remove the memory chips. Otherwise, the RAM harvesters would get them. Elsewhere, criminal groups are misdirecting trucks carrying RAM in order to loot them. All of this is happening because of a generational shortage of a part used in practically every electronic gadget on Earth. RAM is your device's short-term memory'storing the information it needs to handle any active tasks. (RAM stands for 'random-access memory.') To put this in intimately familiar terms, it is what your computer runs out of when you have too many browser tabs open. And right now, the price of RAM is skyrocketing. From September to February, the price of a single 64GB stick of RAM went from roughly $250 to more than $1,000. Gamers who build their own juiced computers were among the first to notice that something was off. Starting in the...
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