{"id":331686,"date":"2026-03-06T08:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/331686\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T08:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:01:09","slug":"steep-price-hikes-hit-chinas-smartphone-market-as-memory-crunch-deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/331686\/","title":{"rendered":"Steep price hikes hit China&#8217;s smartphone market as memory crunch deepens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/electronics\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Electronics<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Apple&#8217;s new budget iPhone adds to pressure on Chinese brands<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/7\/3.jpeg\" alt=\"20260306 China Smartphone\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">China&#8217;s smartphone makers are facing a memory chip crunch and price pressure from a new cheaper iPhone. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>CISSY ZHOU, CHENG-TING FANG and LAULY LI<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; China&#8217;s smartphone market is seeing one of its biggest and widest price hikes ever, affecting almost all brands and product categories, as a deepening memory chip shortage pushes up costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Electronics Apple&#8217;s new budget iPhone adds to pressure on Chinese brands China&#8217;s smartphone makers are facing a memory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[58415,152907,152908,113587,17550,61,60,589,3021,202,2494,7700,152906,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-331686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-chinas","9":"tag-crunch","10":"tag-deepens","11":"tag-hikes","12":"tag-hit","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-market","16":"tag-memory","17":"tag-mobile","18":"tag-price","19":"tag-smartphone","20":"tag-steep","21":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331686","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=331686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}