{"id":1018868,"date":"2026-07-04T08:15:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T02:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018868"},"modified":"2026-07-04T08:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T02:49:07","slug":"chips-down-for-the-budget-phone-as-memory-crunch-bites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/04\/chips-down-for-the-budget-phone-as-memory-crunch-bites\/","title":{"rendered":"Chips down for the budget phone as memory crunch bites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The artificial intelligence boom has begun to exact a visible toll on the world\u2019s smartphone industry \u2014 and Indian buyers are squarely in the line of fire. <\/p>\n<p>While India-specific figures are not yet available, China\u2019s three largest Android makers \u2014 Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo \u2014 have slashed their 2026 global shipment targets by as much as 30%, according to a Nikkei Asia report this week, as memory chips are diverted wholesale to Ai data centres. <\/p>\n<p>In India, the crisis was already visible and is expected to worsen further. Smartphone shipments in India fell 3% year-on-year in the January\u2013March quarter, the market\u2019s weakest showing in six years,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The artificial intelligence boom has begun to exact a visible toll on the world\u2019s smartphone industry \u2014 and Indian buyers are squarely in the line of fire. While India-specific figures are not yet available, China\u2019s three largest Android makers \u2014 Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo \u2014 have slashed their 2026 global shipment targets by as much as 30%, according to a Nikkei Asia report this week, as memory chips are diverted wholesale to Ai data centres. In India, the crisis was already visible and is expected to worsen further. Smartphone shipments in India fell 3% year-on-year in the January\u2013March quarter, the [&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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018868","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=1018868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018893,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018868\/revisions\/1018893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}