{"id":1003578,"date":"2026-04-18T10:35:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003578"},"modified":"2026-04-18T11:35:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:05:04","slug":"ericsson-lags-profit-expectations-as-ai-demand-drives-up-chip-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/18\/ericsson-lags-profit-expectations-as-ai-demand-drives-up-chip-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Ericsson lags profit expectations as AI demand drives up chip bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden&#8217;s Ericsson reported a first-quarter core profit that slightly missed market expectations on Friday, citing increasing \u200cchip costs \u2060caused by artificial \u2060intelligence demand and a sales slowdown in North America. <\/p>\n<p>The network equipment maker is facing rising input costs partially due to high demand for AI technology that is driving up prices of semiconductors, CEO B\u00f6rje Ekholm said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden&#8217;s Ericsson reported a first-quarter core profit that slightly missed market expectations on Friday, citing increasing \u200cchip costs \u2060caused by artificial \u2060intelligence demand and a sales slowdown in North America. The network equipment maker is facing rising input costs partially due to high demand for AI technology that is driving up prices of semiconductors, CEO B\u00f6rje Ekholm said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}