{"id":653994,"date":"2025-12-25T11:45:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T11:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/653994\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T11:45:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T11:45:44","slug":"memory-shortage-expected-to-hike-the-price-of-your-next-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/653994\/","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":653995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3159],"tags":[323,1662,547,42955,542,53,16,15,10361],"class_list":["post-653994","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-xiaomi"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115780041053269730","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}