The ‘Chipflation’ crisis: Why AI demand is driving tech price hikes

In the recent technological epoch, India’s digital economy is undergoing a rapid transition, working on building a fundamentally strong and completely indigenous AI stack, which powers everything from sovereign language models to hyper-scalable public infrastructure. However, as this technological revolution is closely observed, an underlying crisis threatens to disrupt the momentum. This isn’t an isolated corporate issue; even major tech giants across the globe are aggressively hiking prices to cope with the turbulence caused in the hardware market.