{"id":985665,"date":"2026-01-16T09:22:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985665"},"modified":"2026-01-16T10:36:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:06:33","slug":"as-chip-shortages-push-phone-prices-up-oppo-bets-on-value-over-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/16\/as-chip-shortages-push-phone-prices-up-oppo-bets-on-value-over-panic\/","title":{"rendered":"As chip shortages push phone prices up, OPPO bets on value over panic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve been thinking of upgrading your phone, chances are you\u2019ve also heard the chatter: prices may go up again. Behind the scenes, the global tech industry is dealing with a serious memory chip shortage. And this time, it isn\u2019t a short-term hiccup. <\/p>\n<p>The world is facing an unprecedented crunch in DRAM and storage chips, driven by the explosive growth of AI data centres. Simply put, the same memory that powers your smartphone is now being pulled in massive volumes by AI servers, leaving less supply for consumer devices and pushing prices up. Market intelligence firm IDC warns that this imbalance could last well into 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve been thinking of upgrading your phone, chances are you\u2019ve also heard the chatter: prices may go up again. Behind the scenes, the global tech industry is dealing with a serious memory chip shortage. And this time, it isn\u2019t a short-term hiccup. The world is facing an unprecedented crunch in DRAM and storage chips, driven by the explosive growth of AI data centres. Simply put, the same memory that powers your smartphone is now being pulled in massive volumes by AI servers, leaving less supply for consumer devices and pushing prices up. Market intelligence firm IDC warns that this [&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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985665","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\/985665","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=985665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}