{"id":946170,"date":"2025-07-14T07:28:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T01:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=946170"},"modified":"2025-07-14T07:42:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T02:12:03","slug":"flagship-smartphones-in-india-may-get-expensive-as-cost-of-ai-weighs-on-chipsets-components","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/14\/flagship-smartphones-in-india-may-get-expensive-as-cost-of-ai-weighs-on-chipsets-components\/","title":{"rendered":"Flagship smartphones in India may get expensive as cost of AI weighs on chipsets, components"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) could become a double-edged sword for smartphone brands, with industry executives and experts expecting that the rising costs of chipsets and memory modules may make flagship handsets expensive by about 10-15% in India in the coming quarters. <\/p>\n<p>The rising costs, if passed on to mid-range model buyers, could further dull the smartphone shipments in India this year, according to analysts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) could become a double-edged sword for smartphone brands, with industry executives and experts expecting that the rising costs of chipsets and memory modules may make flagship handsets expensive by about 10-15% in India in the coming quarters. The rising costs, if passed on to mid-range model buyers, could further dull the smartphone shipments in India this year, according to analysts.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946170","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=946170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}