Steam Machine and Steam Frame delays are the latest product of the RAM crisis
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Valve公司原计划于今年上半年推出Steam Machine台式电脑和Steam Frame VR头显，但由于AI产业对内存需求激增导致RAM和存储芯片短缺及价格持续上涨，该公司目前仍无法确定这两款设备的具体定价与上市日期。价格波动已波及GPU等依赖存储芯片的硬件，使Valve在最终定价与发售安排上需保持审慎。
When Valve announced its Steam Machine desktop PC and Steam Frame VR headset in mid-November of last year, it declined to announce pricing or availability information for either device. That was partly because RAM and storage prices had already begun to climb, thanks to shortages caused by the AI industry's insatiable need for memory. Those price spikes have only gotten worse since then, and they're beginning to trickle down to GPUs and other devices that use memory chips.
This week, Valve has officially announced that it's still not ready to make an official announcement about when the Machine or Frame will be available or what they'll cost.
Valve says it still plans to launch both devices (as well as the new Steam Controller) "in the first half of the year," but that uncertainty around RAM and storage prices mean that Valve "[has] work to do to land on concrete pricing and launch dates we can confidently announce, being mindful of how quickly the circumstances around both of these things can change."
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