{"id":153486,"date":"2025-11-22T09:18:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T09:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/153486\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T09:18:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T09:18:29","slug":"memory-chip-prices-surge-amid-strong-demand-from-the-ai-sector-analysts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/153486\/","title":{"rendered":"Memory chip prices surge amid strong demand from the AI sector: analysts"},"content":{"rendered":"

The steep rise in memory chip prices is expected to continue on the back of heightened demand from the artificial intelligence<\/a> industry, while average consumers are likely to pay more for a new smartphone<\/a>, according to analysts.<\/p>\n

Memory chip prices were forecast to increase 30 per cent in the fourth quarter this year and a further 20 per cent in 2026, following a 50 per cent surge year to date, Counterpoint Research said in a report on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The higher cost reflects the rapid shift in strategy for the major memory chipmakers, as they focus more on supplying large-capacity storage products for enterprises involved in AI projects and those running data centres<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That has resulted in supplies of conventional memory products for consumer electronics being squeezed.<\/p>\n

LPDDR4 chips, for example, are in tight supply. These synchronous dynamic random-access memory products, designed for high-speed performance with low power consumption, are widely used in certain servers and smartphones.<\/p>\n

The price increase was expected to be turbocharged once US semiconductor giant Nvidia<\/a> started using LPDDR4 chips in its AI servers to lower power consumption, according to Counterpoint.The high demand for DDR4 and LPDDR4 chips had led to a severe shortage and relentless price escalation in China, a Shenzhen<\/a>-based agent of imported chips, who declined to be named, said on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The steep rise in memory chip prices is expected to continue on the back of heightened demand from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,86735,218,219,86739,114,24873,86738,5691,86742,61,60,86736,86740,86737,86741,233,35152,13492,2842,7700,80,2215],"class_list":{"0":"post-153486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-server","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-average-consumers","13":"tag-china","14":"tag-consumer-electronics","15":"tag-counterpoint","16":"tag-data-centres","17":"tag-ddr4","18":"tag-ie","19":"tag-ireland","20":"tag-lpddr4","21":"tag-lpddr4-chips","22":"tag-lu-weibing","23":"tag-memory-chip-prices","24":"tag-nvidia","25":"tag-redmi-k90","26":"tag-semiconductor","27":"tag-shenzhen","28":"tag-smartphone","29":"tag-technology","30":"tag-xiaomi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}