{"id":985503,"date":"2026-01-16T07:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985503"},"modified":"2026-01-16T08:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:32:10","slug":"costlier-memory-chips-may-trigger-price-shock-smartphone-tv-and-laptop-prices-could-rise-by-4-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/16\/costlier-memory-chips-may-trigger-price-shock-smartphone-tv-and-laptop-prices-could-rise-by-4-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Costlier memory chips may trigger price shock: Smartphone, TV and laptop prices could rise by 4\u20138%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prices of smartphones, televisions, and laptops are expected to rise by as much as 4-8% over the next two months, adding to a sharp increase of up to 21% in November-December, according to industry executives and market experts. <\/p>\n<p>Smartphone makers are facing the impact of rising demand for memory chips amid accelerated adoption of artificial intelligence and high-performance computing, driving prices higher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prices of smartphones, televisions, and laptops are expected to rise by as much as 4-8% over the next two months, adding to a sharp increase of up to 21% in November-December, according to industry executives and market experts. Smartphone makers are facing the impact of rising demand for memory chips amid accelerated adoption of artificial intelligence and high-performance computing, driving prices higher.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985503","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=985503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}