Samsung Posts Record Revenue Amid Mobile Loss
Samsung Electronics delivered record quarterly revenue of 171.5 trillion won while simultaneously posting its first operating loss in the mobile business, exposing how surging memory prices tied to artificial intelligence infrastructure are reshaping…
Smartphone Shipments Plummet
The global smartphone industry is confronting its sharpest contraction in more than a decade, driven by a severe shortage of DRAM and NAND memory that has inflated component costs and forced widespread price increases. Shipments fell 11 percent…
MacBooks, Watches Slashed 38%
Apple is offering its steepest discounts yet on premium hardware just weeks before acknowledging that memory chip costs have become unsustainable. The 13-inch MacBook Air with M3 chip, 16GB RAM, and 512GB storage dropped to $799 at Amazon, while the…
Apple Devices Under Threat
Apple faces simultaneous pressures from rising component costs and hardware-level security limitations that together accelerate the obsolescence of devices released just a few years ago. Memory chip shortages are forcing price adjustments that could…