India, June 23 -- The next price jump on your phone or laptop may not come from a better camera, a brighter display, or a faster chip. It may come from memory. Yes, the least flashy part of the spec sheet may be the one that hits your wallet.

Memory helps a phone keep apps open, lets a laptop survive too many browser tabs, and keeps games from turning into a loading-screen marathon. Now those same parts are being pulled into the Artificial Intelligence (AI) buildout, where data centers need massive amounts of memory and storage to train and run large models. AI servers rely on Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), NAND flash, High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), and solid-state drive (SSD) storage. These components help move, store, and process t...