{"id":982577,"date":"2025-12-30T09:04:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T03:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=982577"},"modified":"2025-12-30T10:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T04:37:10","slug":"ai-memory-crunch-may-raise-budget-smartphone-and-pc-prices-worldwide-in-2026-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/30\/ai-memory-crunch-may-raise-budget-smartphone-and-pc-prices-worldwide-in-2026-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"AI memory crunch may raise budget smartphone and PC prices worldwide in 2026 sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Budget and mid-tier smartphones, PCs and storage devices could cost more in 2026 because of the steep rise in the demand for mechanised memory. <\/p>\n<p>With every major AI company \u2014 Google, OpenAI, Nvidia, Amazon and Microsoft \u2014 focusing on building massive data centres to train and run AI models, the demand for memory, a staple of data servers, is also increasing. Random Access Memory (RAM) is, at the same time, a crucial component of any modern PC,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Budget and mid-tier smartphones, PCs and storage devices could cost more in 2026 because of the steep rise in the demand for mechanised memory. With every major AI company \u2014 Google, OpenAI, Nvidia, Amazon and Microsoft \u2014 focusing on building massive data centres to train and run AI models, the demand for memory, a staple of data servers, is also increasing. Random Access Memory (RAM) is, at the same time, a crucial component of any modern PC,<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982577","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=982577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}