The sheer scale of the ongoing increase in DRAM and NAND costs is unprecedented by any definition of the word, as Apple's Tim Cook also recently highlighted by conceding that he had "never seen anything like this in over 40 years." A simple statement, however, rarely conveys the full extent of a paradigm-altering upheaval, and to get some much-needed clarity, you should look no further than the upcoming Apple iPhone 18 Pro Max's Bill of Materials (BOM) breakdown, where the NAND and DRAM costs now make up nearly half of the total cost of each device. Apple's Bill of Materials […]

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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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