… Ultimately, these premiums are trickling down the value chain, intensifying the pricing pressure of PCs on the end-users." Before the Peace President's latest foreign adventure kicked off, analysts had already noted that prices for some types of memory have doubled or quadrupled since last year , a… …
… This is expected to slow to 2.1 percent this year, as supply constraints and pricing pressures linked to the AI market affect hardware availability elsewhere. …
… Craig Guarente, founder and CEO of Palisade Compliance, said that Oracle was no longer simply putting pressure on customers to license Java; it was conducting official audits. “We've definitely seen in the last few months a return to classic Oracle auditing practices,” he said. …
… The firm says it has managed DRAM pressure through supplier diversification, pricing adjustments and substantial inventory buffers. …
… And that accelerated collapse is then going to cost a lot of people their jobs." Another likely outcome, said Smiley, is pricing pressure – companies will ask for discounts when they know a service company is using AI tools. Deeks said extreme pricing pressure is starting to surface. …
… "Due to recent increases in memory and component costs, Surface is updating pricing on Microsoft.com for its current-generation hardware portfolio," a spokesperson told The Register . …
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… R&D and production costs are very high, alongside a price tag that makes it unattainable to the majority of consumers." As well as the cost to consumers, the analyst also noted that Samsung was likely concerned about margin pressures due to surging storage and memory costs. …
… In fact, since many customers prefer to run their workloads on x86 cores, either for performance or compatibility reasons, Intel remains useful for putting pricing pressure on AMD and vice versa. …
… This year, "both equity and debt investors have raised questions about Oracle's ability to finance this build-out as demonstrated by widening of Oracle credit default swap CDS spreads and pressure on Oracle stock/bonds," the research note adds. …