Welcome to the end of budget smartphones — thanks to AI
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Consumers might have felt the impact of RAM and memory shortages over the past year. However, the roots of the shortage go back even further. According to a recent interview with Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra, memory manufacturers began cutting back on investments in expanding production capacity in 2023 after some customers pushed for lower prices. Mehrotra said that in 2023, memory prices fell to one-third of what they had been before. Hence, just as memory chip manufacturers had scaled back their investments in expanding production capacity, the AI boom began. Suddenly, these companies had a n
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… Xuan Chiew, Research Manager at Omdia, said memory prices might decline in the second half of 2027, but they are unlikely to return to pre-2025 levels. Source: Commercial Times Adata Memory Memory shortage Dram Dram shortage Report a problem with this article
… Apple has long relied on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company TSMC to produce its chips. TSMC also operates a manufacturing plant in Arizona, which is now producing A-series chips for iPhones . …
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