The AI boom is squeezing the global supply of RAM and silicon, pushing up prices and disrupting what actually lands on South African shelves. At the same time, print revenue has been sliding year after year — and HP still calls print part of the edge computing ecosystem. Adrian Hinchcliffe puts both to Yesh Surjoodeen, Managing Director of HP Southern Africa: what the chip crunch really did to local availability, why AI PCs went from 35% to 44% of shipments in a single quarter.
Published on 14 August 2026
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