A global memory shortage driven by the AI boom is threatening to blunt the gaming industry’s multi-year momentum.
RAM, random-access memory, is the “green, black, and gold brain of electronics,” the essential short-term storage component of any device, WIRED wrote.
Data centers powering new AI tools, though, are consuming massive amounts of RAM chips, creating a “RAMaggedon” in the multibillion-dollar global gaming industry.
If devices can’t sufficiently increase their memory capacity, world-building could become less vast and “the innovation will slow down,” a game critic said.
At the same time, developers are grappling with the threat posed by the AI tools themselves, though fans have pushed back against games that use even a hint of generative AI.