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Get ready for pricier electronics as a memory chip shortage squeezes consumer tech.
plus another week, another partial government shutdown with no immediate end in sight,
and we'll dig in to the strangest American winter in years.
We have extreme cold on the eastern U.S., but then in the western U.S.,
we are dealing with record-breaking temperatures in many instances.
We pulled readers, and 52 percent so far have said this winter is worse than they remember.
It's Tuesday, February 17th.
I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of What's News,
the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.
A growing and acute shortage of memory chips is squeezing the makers of phones,
laptops, and game consoles, sending consumer tech prices skyrocketing.
With AI demand gobbling up high-end semiconductors,