{"id":1025228,"date":"2026-07-31T09:07:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T03:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025228"},"modified":"2026-07-31T09:47:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T04:17:24","slug":"crunch-chips-away-qualcomm-topline-as-memory-costs-push-smartphone-prices-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/31\/crunch-chips-away-qualcomm-topline-as-memory-costs-push-smartphone-prices-higher\/","title":{"rendered":"Crunch chips away Qualcomm topline as memory costs push smartphone prices higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Qualcomm, the largest maker of smartphone processors, has become the latest casualty of the memory-chip crunch rattling the electronics industry. The company reported a 20 per cent fall in handset revenue. Chief executive Cristiano Amon said that \u201cprices are going to go up\u201d on the company\u2019s products starting September 1, citing rising costs across the supply chain, not just for memory chips. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the short term, the entire industry continues to be impacted by unprecedented memory prices, higher manufacturing and input costs as well as supply chain shortages driven by overall data centre demand,\u201d Amon said during the company\u2019s latest quarterly earnings call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qualcomm, the largest maker of smartphone processors, has become the latest casualty of the memory-chip crunch rattling the electronics industry. The company reported a 20 per cent fall in handset revenue. Chief executive Cristiano Amon said that \u201cprices are going to go up\u201d on the company\u2019s products starting September 1, citing rising costs across the supply chain, not just for memory chips. \u201cIn the short term, the entire industry continues to be impacted by unprecedented memory prices, higher manufacturing and input costs as well as supply chain shortages driven by overall data centre demand,\u201d Amon said during the company\u2019s latest [&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":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025228","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=1025228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025244,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025228\/revisions\/1025244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}