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Nothing’s budget-focused CMF Phone line will not see a new model released this year. The company has cited elevated RAM component costs as the reason for canceling the planned launch, indicating that price pressures on memory chips have made the project financially untenable.
HP reports that RAM now makes up about 35% of the bill of materials for its PCs, up from roughly 15%-18% in the prior quarter. The company says memory costs have doubled sequentially and expects the share of RAM in PC costs to continue increasing through 2026.
Valve’s Steam Deck OLED is currently available only intermittently because of memory and storage shortages, leaving the device out of stock in the United States for several days. The company has updated the product page to reflect the limited supply, and the basic 256 GB LCD model has been discontinued, raising the entry price to $549 while other models remain unavailable.
Valve has postponed the launch of its Steam Machine, now targeting the first half of the year, because ongoing shortages of RAM and storage components are disrupting production and driving up prices. The memory and storage scarcity is also affecting the related Steam Frame, prompting the company to reset pricing for both devices.