At some point, yes, it’ll get better – but it’s hard to say how long it’ll take. Micron, a leading memory supplier, has started building a couple new memory fabs across the US, and they’re expected to start coming online over the next couple years – with the final one being up and running by 2030. They’re just one supplier, but any additional supply will help tremendously. Apple, on the other hand, has started a new lobbying effort to compel the US government to allow them to do business with a handful of currently-blacklisted Chinese memory suppliers. Apple technically isn’t blocked from buyi
Your Mac and iPad prices just went up, here's why AI data centers are to blame - 9to5Mac… Here are the details. iPhone sales surge in China as competition increases prices According to the report via Reuters , the rising costs of memory chips led Android manufacturers to raise prices to the point that not even government subsidies were able to curb the decline in smartphone sales. …
… Memory supply pressures As outlined by outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook in an interview with The Wall Street Journal , Apple simply couldn’t sustain its existing prices anymore with the sudden surges: “Unfortunately, price increases are unavoidable,” he said. “We’re doing our best to mitigate the huge i… …