{"id":158974,"date":"2025-11-29T10:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T10:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/158974\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T10:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T10:29:14","slug":"if-samsung-has-its-way-big-price-hikes-are-likely-for-most-top-phones-from-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/158974\/","title":{"rendered":"If Samsung has its way, big price hikes are likely for most top phones from 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consumers breathe a sigh of relief if new phones, particularly flagship phones, launched each year don&#8217;t get a price hike. However, the situation may change from 2026 and could remain that way for the foreseeable future.\n<\/p>\n<p>Memory chip prices have seen an astronomical rise in recent months and they&#8217;re expected to trend higher. This could force many manufacturers, including Samsung which also makes memory chips, to raise prices. <\/p>\n<p>\nTop phones may keep getting more expensive for a couple of years\n<\/p>\n<p>Flagship phones require more memory than ever before to power the many AI features that are being introduced. PC makers also need memory while data centers and AI companies can&#8217;t gobble memory fast enough. All of this is pushing memory prices into super cycle territory.\n<\/p>\n<p>This is working out well for Samsung which makes a wide variety of memory products. It&#8217;s also at the forefront of providing high-bandwidth memory for AI chips. Samsung has recently raised the prices of some memory chips by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sammobile.com\/news\/samsung-has-a-product-everyone-wants-so-it-hiked-up-the-price-by-60\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">as much as 60%<\/a> to capitalize on this high demand.\n<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/pulse.mk.co.kr\/news\/english\/11479436\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">report<\/a> from South Korea highlights that the prices from Samsung&#8217;s 16 DDR5 RAM has risen from $53 in late September to nearly $135 last week. Prices for the 32GB chip have surged from $115 to $313 in the same period.\n<\/p>\n<p>This will force manufacturers to increase the prices of their top phones. Samsung may have to do the same for next year&#8217;s Galaxy S26 series, thought it may try to soften the impact through the use of its Exynos 2600 chip in most variants.\n<\/p>\n<p>Market analysts predict that higher prices could carry into 2027 as well, so price hikes can&#8217;t be ruled out for 2027&#8217;s Galaxy S27 series, either. Apple is also expected to charge more for the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max next year, while it&#8217;s first foldable iPhone due next year may also be on the higher side with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sammobile.com\/news\/this-could-be-the-iphone-folds-biggest-problem-vs-the-galaxy-z-fold-8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">expected price tag of $2,300<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a class=\"google-preferred-news-source-cta-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sammobile.com\/news\/add-sammobile-as-a-preferred-source-on-google-to-always-get-the-latest-news\/\" style=\"display: inline-block;\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"google-preferred-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark.png\" alt=\"Google Preferred News Source\" style=\"max-width: 50%; height: auto;\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Consumers breathe a sigh of relief if new phones, particularly flagship phones, launched each year don&#8217;t get a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[57534,95767,85,46,321,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-158974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-galaxy-s26","9":"tag-galaxy-s27","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-mobile","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}