{"id":1017846,"date":"2026-06-30T11:16:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T05:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1017846"},"modified":"2026-06-30T11:16:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T05:46:32","slug":"elon-musk-agrees-with-what-apple-ceo-tim-cook-said-has-shocked-him-says-biggest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/30\/elon-musk-agrees-with-what-apple-ceo-tim-cook-said-has-shocked-him-says-biggest\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk agrees with what Apple CEO Tim Cook said has shocked him; says: Biggest &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple CEO Tim Cook recently described the global memory shortage as a \u201chundred-year flood\u201d and said he had \u201cnever seen anything like it in over 40 years.\u201d Tesla CEO Elon Musk agreed, posting on social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter), that the surge represents the \u201cbiggest price jump in anything I\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d The AI boom has strained global memory chip production, as hyperscalers and data center buildouts consume vast supply. This has driven costs sharply higher, squeezing margins across consumer electronics and forcing companies to raise prices.<\/p>\n<p>Apple took the rare step of hiking prices on MacBooks, iMacs, iPads, HomePods, and Apple TV boxes, with increases of up to $300. Microsoft followed suit, announcing Xbox consoles would cost $100\u2013$150 more beginning August 1. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple CEO Tim Cook recently described the global memory shortage as a \u201chundred-year flood\u201d and said he had \u201cnever seen anything like it in over 40 years.\u201d Tesla CEO Elon Musk agreed, posting on social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter), that the surge represents the \u201cbiggest price jump in anything I\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d The AI boom has strained global memory chip production, as hyperscalers and data center buildouts consume vast supply. This has driven costs sharply higher, squeezing margins across consumer electronics and forcing companies to raise prices. Apple took the rare step of hiking prices on MacBooks, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017846","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017847,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017846\/revisions\/1017847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}