{"id":333662,"date":"2025-12-24T18:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T18:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/333662\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T18:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T18:01:11","slug":"memory-shortage-expected-to-hike-the-price-of-your-next-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/333662\/","title":{"rendered":"Memory shortage expected to hike the price of your next phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"auto\">AI data centers require a lot of memory components to power tools like Gemini and ChatGPT, and construction of new data centers continues at a brisk pace. Exacerbating the price effects of newly increased demand, AI providers are seemingly able and willing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/memory-prices-increasing-3616087\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">outbid consumer electronics manufacturers<\/a> to secure their share of the limited RAM and storage being manufactured, driving prices higher still.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Phone prices have generally held steady for the past few years \u2014 the Galaxy S21, S22, S23, S24, and S25 series, for example, all started at $799.99 ($200 less than the launch price of 2020\u2019s Galaxy S20). Rising costs for consumers were inevitable, though given the large-scale societal investment in AI hasn\u2019t increased the average worker\u2019s take-home pay, the coming price hikes will be especially hard to stomach for many buyers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI data centers require a lot of memory components to power tools like Gemini and ChatGPT, and construction&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[554,304,2306,96078,1560,86,56,54,55,16608],"class_list":["post-333662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-ai","tag-apple","tag-mobile","tag-ram","tag-samsung","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-xiaomi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}