{"id":1005588,"date":"2026-04-29T09:09:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T03:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005588"},"modified":"2026-04-29T09:17:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T03:47:27","slug":"samsung-apple-outpace-rivals-as-global-memory-chip-crunch-hits-chinese-smartphone-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/29\/samsung-apple-outpace-rivals-as-global-memory-chip-crunch-hits-chinese-smartphone-makers\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung, Apple outpace rivals as global memory chip crunch hits Chinese smartphone makers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung Electronics and Apple are currently navigating a tightening global memory chip supply that is simultaneously squeezing Chinese smartphone vendors and reshuffling market leadership. While the broader mobile industry faces a shipment decline, these two manufacturers are leveraging financial strength and internal supply chains to maintain growth amidst a critical shortage of low-power DRAM (LPDDR). <\/p>\n<p>According to a report by The Korea Herald, global smartphone shipments fell 4.1% on-year to 289.7 million units in the first quarter. This marks the first January-March decline since 2023. During this period, Samsung secured the top spot with 62.8 million shipments and a 21.7% market share, followed by Apple with 61.1 million units and a 19.6 per cent share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung Electronics and Apple are currently navigating a tightening global memory chip supply that is simultaneously squeezing Chinese smartphone vendors and reshuffling market leadership. While the broader mobile industry faces a shipment decline, these two manufacturers are leveraging financial strength and internal supply chains to maintain growth amidst a critical shortage of low-power DRAM (LPDDR). According to a report by The Korea Herald, global smartphone shipments fell 4.1% on-year to 289.7 million units in the first quarter. This marks the first January-March decline since 2023. During this period, Samsung secured the top spot with 62.8 million shipments and a 21.7% [&hellip;]<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005588","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=1005588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}