Whether you’re buying a high-end PC or the latest flagship smartphone, RAM is a precious commodity these days. The crunch in global supply has driven prices to record highs, making it harder and more expensive to get our hands on cutting-edge memory at a reasonable price.
At the same time, the market is pushing AI features on us at an accelerating pace, and, as you probably know, on-device AI tools require a lot of RAM. If you didn’t, the problem is quite simple: local models running on your phone (or laptop) rather than in the cloud have to be loaded into RAM to run at an acceptable speed.