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901 Smartphone Market To Shrink 15% This Year Due To Memory Crisis

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 06/17/2026 18:00 EDT

Smartphone Market To Shrink 15% This Year Due To Memory Crisis

CCS Insight expects global smartphone shipments to fall 15% this year as AI-driven demand pushes memory manufacturers toward higher-margin server chips. "[S]ome entry-level devices have already seen their sticker prices go up by more than 50 percent since last year," reports The Register. From the report: The firm found that the primary smartphone market (meaning new devices) contracted 4.4 percent in the first quarter of this year, despite sales channels front-loading (meaning stockpiling) product inventor

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