As RAM prices continue to climb, budget CPUs are becoming more important. Here, we look at the three leading CPUs around $100 that use DDR4 memory to find which one is right for your next budget PC build.

Micron is scaling up DDR4 production as the supply of the older memory standard has become unexpectedly tight.

Huawei developed a new die-on-board packaging, which directly mounted NAND dies on the SSD PCB, to get around the sanctions that prevented it from acquiring high-layer-count 3D NAND chips that used American tech. This allowed the company to pile in more 3D NAND on its storage devices without the limitations of traditional NAND packaging to deliver higher capacity using less dense 3D NAND dies.

A Redditor has caused a stir by coaxing a workstation build using Optane PMem DIMMs as RAM to run a 1-trillion parameter LLM.