{"id":1017061,"date":"2026-06-26T09:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T03:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1017061"},"modified":"2026-06-26T09:31:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:01:18","slug":"apple-caught-in-memory-crunch-as-ai-chip-demand-pushes-mac-and-ipad-prices-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/26\/apple-caught-in-memory-crunch-as-ai-chip-demand-pushes-mac-and-ipad-prices-higher\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple caught in memory crunch as AI chip demand pushes Mac and iPad prices higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The global memory and storage chips armageddon is forcing Apple to hike the prices of its Macs and iPads. In a statement, Apple attributed the extreme step to \u201cthe rapid expansion of AI data centres\u201d, which has \u201ccreated an extraordinary surge in demand for memory and storage\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly. We have shielded our customers from these increases so far, but we have now reached a point where we need to begin raising prices on a number of products, including today\u2019s increases for iPad and Mac,\u201d the statement reads. iPhone prices were unchanged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The global memory and storage chips armageddon is forcing Apple to hike the prices of its Macs and iPads. In a statement, Apple attributed the extreme step to \u201cthe rapid expansion of AI data centres\u201d, which has \u201ccreated an extraordinary surge in demand for memory and storage\u201d. \u201cWe have never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly. We have shielded our customers from these increases so far, but we have now reached a point where we need to begin raising prices on a number of products, including today\u2019s increases for iPad and Mac,\u201d the statement reads. iPhone prices [&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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017061","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=1017061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017077,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017061\/revisions\/1017077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}