{"id":1018827,"date":"2026-07-04T07:39:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T02:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018827"},"modified":"2026-07-04T07:42:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T02:12:01","slug":"uks-currys-warns-memory-chip-shortage-will-push-up-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/04\/uks-currys-warns-memory-chip-shortage-will-push-up-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s Currys warns memory chip shortage will push up prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Higher prices for smartphones, laptops and other electronics are inevitable later this year due to a global memory chip shortage, the boss of Currys, Britain&#8217;s biggest consumer electricals \u200cretailer, warned on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Chief \u2060Executive \u2060Alex Baldock said AI and data centres were eating up the world&#8217;s supply of silicon. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Less (is) left over for the likes of mobile phones and laptops and that inevitably will cause availability challenges and some cost price inflation coming through later this year,&#8221; he told reporters after Currys published annual results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Higher prices for smartphones, laptops and other electronics are inevitable later this year due to a global memory chip shortage, the boss of Currys, Britain&#8217;s biggest consumer electricals \u200cretailer, warned on Thursday. Chief \u2060Executive \u2060Alex Baldock said AI and data centres were eating up the world&#8217;s supply of silicon. &#8220;Less (is) left over for the likes of mobile phones and laptops and that inevitably will cause availability challenges and some cost price inflation coming through later this year,&#8221; he told reporters after Currys published annual results.<\/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-1018827","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\/1018827","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=1018827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018828,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018827\/revisions\/1018828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}