{"id":191110,"date":"2026-02-27T02:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/ai-is-gobbling-up-the-worlds-memory-chips-sending-smartphone-prices-to-record-highs-report-says\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T02:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:05:15","slug":"ai-is-gobbling-up-the-worlds-memory-chips-sending-smartphone-prices-to-record-highs-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/ai-is-gobbling-up-the-worlds-memory-chips-sending-smartphone-prices-to-record-highs-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"AI is gobbling up the world\u2019s memory chips, sending smartphone prices to record highs, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/27\/tech\/ai-memory-chips-smartphones-intl-hnk\">AI is gobbling up the world\u2019s memory chips, sending smartphone prices to record highs, report says<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/27\/tech\/ai-memory-chips-smartphones-intl-hnk\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/27\/tech\/ai-memory-chips-smartphones-intl-hnk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-27 02:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnn.com\">www.cnn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The global shortage of memory chips due to increased demand from the artificial intelligence (AI) boom has caused a &#8220;tsunami-like shock&#8221; in the smartphone industry, pushing prices to all-time highs.<\/li>\n<li>A report by the International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that the average selling price of smartphones will rise by 14% this year to $523 and that sales will decline by 12.9% in 2026 to 1.12 billion units, the lowest level in over a decade.<\/li>\n<li>Memory chip manufacturers have shifted their production focus to high bandwidth memory (HBM) chips for AI, leaving less supply available for consumer electronics like smartphones.<\/li>\n<li>The shortage is expected to permanently affect smartphone manufacturers, particularly smaller companies, while larger firms like Apple and Samsung may seize the opportunity to increase their market share.<\/li>\n<li>Analysts predict the memory chip shortage will persist well into next year, with implications for various sectors dependent on memory chips, including automotive and consumer electronics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI is gobbling up the world\u2019s memory chips, sending smartphone prices to record highs, report&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":191111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2242151767.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-191110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191112,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191110\/revisions\/191112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}