{"id":237246,"date":"2026-06-25T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/ai-crunches-global-memory-chip-supply-so-apple-and-microsoft-hike-their-prices\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T14:30:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:30:58","slug":"ai-crunches-global-memory-chip-supply-so-apple-and-microsoft-hike-their-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/ai-crunches-global-memory-chip-supply-so-apple-and-microsoft-hike-their-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"AI crunches global memory chip supply, so Apple and Microsoft hike their prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/business\/apple-price-hike-ipad-macbook-ai-memory-chip-2026-9.7248577\">AI crunches global memory chip supply, so Apple and Microsoft hike their prices<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/business\/apple-price-hike-ipad-macbook-ai-memory-chip-2026-9.7248577\">https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/business\/apple-price-hike-ipad-macbook-ai-memory-chip-2026-9.7248577<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-25 13:19:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cbc.ca\">www.cbc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apple has raised the prices of its iPad and MacBook models due to soaring memory and storage chip costs driven by the AI industry&#8217;s data centre buildout.<\/li>\n<li>The AI boom has caused a global shortage in memory chips, affecting a variety of consumer electronics from gaming consoles to smartphones.<\/li>\n<li>Key components such as RAM are being prioritized by AI chip companies, leaving less supply for electronics makers, which has led to substantial price increases.<\/li>\n<li>Multiple electronics companies, including Microsoft, Nintendo, and Valve, have recently announced price hikes for their gaming consoles and new products due to the ongoing parts shortage.<\/li>\n<li>Micron, a major memory manufacturer, predicts that the memory and storage shortage will persist until at least 2027, driven by AI demand and supply constraints.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI crunches global memory chip supply, so Apple and Microsoft hike their prices https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/business\/apple-price-hike-ipad-macbook-ai-memory-chip-2026-9.7248577 Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/ais\/dd55747e-e4fe-465b-90b6-ada02e6a603a,1782401253892\/full\/max\/0\/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C184%2C3535%2C1988%29%3BResize%3D620","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237246"}],"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=237246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237250,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237246\/revisions\/237250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}