{"id":524968,"date":"2026-07-14T04:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/524968\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T04:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:09:14","slug":"ai-driven-chipflation-puts-chill-on-electronics-purchases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/524968\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-driven &#8216;chipflation&#8217; puts chill on electronics purchases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/tech\/semiconductors\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Semiconductors<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Memory prices are up sixfold, with smartphone, computer sales to fall by 200m units<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ft.com\/v3\/image\/raw\/https%3A%2F%2Fcms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com%2Fimages%2F8%2F7%2F5%2F9%2F12799578-2-eng-GB%2Fc00f73af2fa9-photo_SXM2026071000011847.jpg?fit=cover&amp;gravity=faces&amp;dpr=2&amp;quality=medium&amp;source=nar-cms&amp;format=auto&amp;width=780\" alt=\"20260713N DRAM and smartphones\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Forecasts show prices are likely to continue rising for memory chips and the devices they are used in, leading to a decline in electronics sales. (Source photos: Nikkei)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">PALO ALTO, California\/TOKYO &#8212; Surging memory chip prices amid booming artificial intelligence investment are lifting consumer\u00a0electronics prices, dragging down shipment of the devices by record levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Semiconductors Memory prices are up sixfold, with smartphone, computer sales to fall by 200m units Forecasts show prices&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[259817,365,90362,363,364,254134,1709,111,139,69,19987,43296,145],"class_list":["post-524968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-chipflation","tag-ai","tag-ai-driven","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-chill","tag-electronics","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-purchases","tag-puts","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}