{"id":1022401,"date":"2026-07-20T10:43:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T05:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022401"},"modified":"2026-07-20T10:43:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T05:13:30","slug":"why-smartphones-and-laptops-are-getting-costly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/20\/why-smartphones-and-laptops-are-getting-costly\/","title":{"rendered":"Why smartphones and laptops are getting costly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Prices of smartphones and laptops have gone up. This may sound counterintuitive because our devices were supposed to get smarter with AI coming in. But we hadn\u2019t imagined it would get costlier. Turns out, the culprit isn\u2019t the software that powers these devices. It\u2019s the enormous amount of memory needed by the AI servers powering these services such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude. It is consuming memory chips at such a pace that manufacturers are finding them harder\u2014and more expensive\u2014to source.<\/p>\n<p>So, they are being forced into uncomfortable choices. Either absorb higher costs and make less money; or pass those costs on to consumers. Other ways to do this include trimming specifications, delaying launches or reducing the number of models they sell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Prices of smartphones and laptops have gone up. This may sound counterintuitive because our devices were supposed to get smarter with AI coming in. But we hadn\u2019t imagined it would get costlier. Turns out, the culprit isn\u2019t the software that powers these devices. It\u2019s the enormous amount of memory needed by the AI servers powering these services such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude. It is consuming memory chips at such a pace that manufacturers are finding them harder\u2014and more expensive\u2014to source. So, they are being forced into uncomfortable choices. Either absorb higher costs and make less money; or pass [&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":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022401","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=1022401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022402,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022401\/revisions\/1022402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}