{"id":438921,"date":"2026-01-28T15:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T15:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/438921\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T15:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T15:56:07","slug":"apple-aims-to-keep-iphone-18-price-flat-in-face-of-ram-shortage-kuo-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/438921\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple aims to keep iPhone 18 price flat in face of RAM shortage, Kuo says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Apple will try to avoid raising iPhone 18 prices \u201cas much as possible\u201d in the face of a global memory shortage, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mingchikuo\/status\/2016213691075862869\" rel=\"nofollow\">a report from supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo<\/a>. According to Kuo, Apple plans to \u201cabsorb the costs\u201d of rising RAM prices, while at least keeping the iPhone 18\u2019s starting price steady.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Kuo reports that Apple is now negotiating iPhone memory prices with suppliers every quarter, instead of every six months, and that he expects the company to face another price increase during its next round of discussions. The company plans to make up for the rising costs with its services business, which includes subscriptions to apps like Apple Music, iCloud, Apple TV, and others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Kuo also points out that Apple may not just be dealing with a memory crunch, as other non-RAM components are running low due to suppliers prioritizing the booming AI business. Glass cloth, which several companies like Apple, Nvidia, AMD, and Qualcomm, use on printed circuit boards, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/861683\/the-glass-cloth-bottleneck\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">facing a bottleneck<\/a> as AI companies buy up the same resource.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple will try to avoid raising iPhone 18 prices \u201cas much as possible\u201d in the face of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1572,77113,49,48,1575,190,44,64,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-438921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-apple-rumors","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-iphone","13":"tag-mobile","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-tech","16":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}