The caller iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max motorboat time with terms tags $100 higher than what their 2025 predecessors cost. Even older models from the iPhone 17 and 16 bid weren’t spared the $100 terms hike. Unfortunately, this isn’t the extremity of it and caller reports assertion that Apple volition rise prices again adjacent year.
A mates of days ago, Korean publications reported that Samsung is renegotiating DRAM and NAND prices with smartphone manufacturers, including Apple. It seems that Samsung and Apple person present reached an statement connected the caller prices.
Apple volition reportedly wage adjacent to $2.00 per gigabit of LPDDR5X RAM and $0.33 per gigabit of NAND retention starting successful Q1 2027. For comparison, Samsung’s prices successful Q3 2026 were $1.50 and $0.26, respectively.
Apple wasn’t the lone smartphone shaper that Samsung asked backmost to the negotiating table. Interestingly, however, Oppo and vivo reportedly refused to judge the higher prices that Samsung was asking. We whitethorn person to hold for teardowns of their adjacent flagships to find retired which supplier they went with instead.
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