Facing the music: Apple, Samsung, and memory cost inflation

Samsung users are still digesting big price increases on the Galaxy S26 series, particularly as they mean some models are now more expensive than equivalently capable iPhones. That’s bad news for everyone, of course, but this is unlikely to get any better for some time to come, with memory giant Micron warning that the memory supply/demand imbalance is going to stick around for at least another year , and probably more. The AI-driven memory price hikes are applying an inflationary squeeze across