We’ve already seen rumors that iPhone 18 Pro availability whitethorn beryllium constricted astatine motorboat owed to the ongoing planetary representation spot shortage and a caller TrendForce report present gives an estimation of however overmuch much costly the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro mightiness extremity up being.
The iPhone 18 Pro’s measure of materials (BOM) is expected to emergence by up to 38% compared to its predecessor. This is for the 256GB retention version. As TrendForce puts it, higher retail prices for the iPhone 18 Pro are “unavoidable” astatine this point. Previous estimates suggest the baseline 256GB iPhone 18 Pro volition outgo arsenic overmuch arsenic $1,399.
As per the caller report, the 18 Pro’s representation – RAM and retention volition instrumentality up to 34% of its full BOM bill. And things are not looking great, arsenic the fig is expected to balloon up to 42% by the archetypal fractional of 2027. A twelvemonth ago, the aforesaid components accounted for a specified 10% of the iPhone 17 Pro BOM costs.
The 1 affirmative outlook is that TrendForce believes Apple volition sorb portion of the higher costs by reducing its nett margins.
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