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The real reason your phone is getting more expensive

Memory chip costs are surging across the consumer electronics industry, with smartphone and device manufacturers facing inevitable price increases as artificial intelligence systems consume vast quantities of specialized high-bandwidth memory. The shortage stems from decades of underinvestment in manufacturing capacity combined with AI's unprecedented demand for expensive-to-produce chips, leaving three dominant manufacturers to divide limited resources between lucrative data center contracts and consumer devices.

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