{"id":972404,"date":"2025-11-07T08:19:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T02:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=972404"},"modified":"2025-11-07T09:31:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T04:01:43","slug":"chips-are-down-for-handset-companies-amid-ai-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/07\/chips-are-down-for-handset-companies-amid-ai-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Chips are down for handset companies amid AI boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Smartphone makers are facing a shortage of critical components such as memory chips and storage due to suppliers diverting capacities to fulfil booming demand for AI hardware, prompting some firms to increase prices, particularly of entry-level handsets. <\/p>\n<p>A weaker rupee is also adding to the sourcing issues for brands, industry executives and market trackers said. <\/p>\n<p>Manufacturers said they are only importing as much chips as needed to keep material costs from rising too much amid a sharp price increase and supply shortage as suppliers divert capacities to cater to demand from AI data centres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Smartphone makers are facing a shortage of critical components such as memory chips and storage due to suppliers diverting capacities to fulfil booming demand for AI hardware, prompting some firms to increase prices, particularly of entry-level handsets. A weaker rupee is also adding to the sourcing issues for brands, industry executives and market trackers said. Manufacturers said they are only importing as much chips as needed to keep material costs from rising too much amid a sharp price increase and supply shortage as suppliers divert capacities to cater to demand from AI data centres.<\/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-972404","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\/972404","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=972404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}