{"id":1009574,"date":"2026-05-23T09:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009574"},"modified":"2026-05-23T09:45:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:15:53","slug":"ai-led-memory-crunch-may-push-smartphone-pc-prices-up-5-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/23\/ai-led-memory-crunch-may-push-smartphone-pc-prices-up-5-10\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-led memory crunch may push smartphone, PC prices up 5\u201310%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smartphones and PCs could become 5\u201310% more expensive over the next 12\u201318 months as artificial intelligence (AI)-driven demand for advanced memory chips continues to tighten supply. <\/p>\n<p>According to the India Electronics and Semiconductor Association\u2019s (IESA) estimates, some consumer electronics categories could see price increases of 10\u201315%, depending on memory requirements, as manufacturers increasingly prioritise high-margin memory products used in AI infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smartphones and PCs could become 5\u201310% more expensive over the next 12\u201318 months as artificial intelligence (AI)-driven demand for advanced memory chips continues to tighten supply. According to the India Electronics and Semiconductor Association\u2019s (IESA) estimates, some consumer electronics categories could see price increases of 10\u201315%, depending on memory requirements, as manufacturers increasingly prioritise high-margin memory products used in AI infrastructure.<\/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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009574","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=1009574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009590,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009574\/revisions\/1009590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}