Almost exactly three months ago, renowned AMD leaker Kepler_L2 claimed that Sony's current BoM (bill of materials) for the upcoming PlayStation 6 console was around $760, thus floating the possibility that the console could be priced at $699 with an initial subsidy from the Japanese corporation. Fellow leaker Moore's Law Is Dead reported a very similar BoM ($743) just days later. However, the component crisis is worsening almost weekly. We've seen that Valve was forced to launch its Steam Machine at $1049, about $300 more than the price it originally targeted, and Microsoft also had to substantially increase the pricing […]

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Apple has been making the most of the ongoing memory 'chipflation' by freezing the prices of its sprawling portfolio of products in a bid to gain market share. But this does not mean that the iPhone manufacturer is immune to the ongoing biting cost surges. As a matter of fact, despite recent corroborative commentary, you should not count on the base iPhone 18 sporting a 12GB RAM, especially as memory costs are slated to make up a whopping 45 percent of a given iPhone's Bill of Materials (BOM) by next year. LPDDR5, which made up just 10 percent of a […]

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