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Apple’s price hikes may trigger broader tech industry increases amid chip crisis
Apple Inc. plans to raise prices on its products to offset surging memory and storage chip costs, CEO Tim Cook told the Wall Street Journal, marking a rare move by the tech giant to pass semiconductor supply pressures directly to consumers amid a tightening global chip shortage.
The price increases are expected to h
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Apple outgoing CEO Tim Cook has confirmed that price increases across the company's product lineup are now unavoidable due to the surging costs and tightening supply of memory and storage chips. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Cook explained that the situation has become unsustainable, as consumer electronics firms face fierce competition for components that are increasingly being di
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Apple plans to raise prices on its products to offset soaring memory and storage chip costs, CEO Tim Cook told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published June 17, 2026. Cook sa
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Citi Lifts Texas Instruments (TXN) Price Target by $65. Here is Why
Published on June 17, 2026 at 9:13 pm by SULTAN KHALID in News
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With a net profit margin of 29.11%, Texas Instruments Incorporated (NASDAQ:TXN) is included among the 12 Most Profitable American Stocks to Buy in 2026.
Texas Instruments Incorporated (NASDAQ:TXN) designs, manufactures, and sells analog and embedded semico
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Citi Lifts Texas Instruments (TXN) Price Target by $65. Here is Why
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Apple CEO Tim Cook tells WSJ that price hikes are "unavoidable" as AI-driven demand drains memory chip supplies. Here's what's behind the shortage and what it means for Apple's lineup.
Tim Cook Confirms It: iPhone Prices Are Going Up Because of a Global Chip Shortage
Get ready to pay more for your next Apple device. CEO Tim Cook has confirmed that Apple plans to raise prices across its product l
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Samsung Electronics' foundry division plans to open its Multi-Project Wafer, or MPW, service to its 2nm process next year, giving South Korean fabless chip designers access to one of the most advanced foundry nodes being commercialized without having to pay for a full wafer run, according to ZDNet Koreaand iNews24.
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Imec, ASML and TSMC have demonstrated a 300mm integration route for 2D-material n-type and p-type field-effect transistors, marking a step toward moving atomically thin channel materials from laboratory devices closer to semiconductor manufacturing.
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The AI wave is rapidly reshaping the global semiconductor supply chain, and that upheaval is opening a new growth chapter for Taiwan's LED industry. As Taiwan's LED makers move away from the price wars of the consumer market, Nvidia's push to upgrade AI transmission standards to 1.6T, 3.2T, and beyond is exposing the physical limits of copper wiring, making scale-up the first battlefield in the co
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Taiyo Yuden is preparing to accelerate production of multilayer ceramic capacitors, or MLCCs, as AI servers and hyperscale data centers tighten supply across the global component market. But the Japanese supplier is resisting the kind of broad price increases now spreading through parts of the industry.
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Japanese capacitor manufacturer Nichicon has announced a broad price hike for aluminum electrolytic capacitors (e-cap), as order volumes for some products have exceeded the company's existing production capacity. The announcement comes amid another round of price increases in the passive components industry.
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Taiwan's listed semiconductor manufacturers reported strong May revenue figures, with a sweeping recovery in DRAM prices and rising artificial intelligence infrastructure spending lifting most of the sector's 27 tracked companies to double-digit year-on-year gains.
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In an exclusive interview with The Wall Street Journal, Apple CEO Tim Cook made an unusually blunt admission. The company is preparing to raise product prices because memory and storage costs have surged to a point Apple can no longer absorb. He said Apple has spent the past stretch trying to shield customers from these cost increases, but the situation has become "unsustainable."
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Imec and Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation (Sony) have jointly presented a new integration method for connecting the front and back sides of semiconductor wafers, a step the two organizations say could support future 3D chip-stacking designs for logic and memory devices.
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D-Wave Quantum (NYSE: QBTS) has seen its stock climb 35% since securing a significant $100 million investment linked to the federal CHIPS Act funding initiative.
The surge has drawn considerable attention from retail and institutional investors alike, particularly after the company’s backing was highlighted through congressional stock tracking tools.
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Apple could soon raise prices on its products as soaring memory and storage chip costs put increasing pressure on the company, CEO Tim Cook said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. The warning comes as booming AI investment fuels unprecedented demand for data centres, creating a supply crunch for critical memory components and driving costs sharply higher across the technology sector.
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June 17 (Reuters) - Apple plans to raise prices on its products to offset increasing memory and storage chip costs, CEO Tim Cook told the Wall Street Journal in an interview.
A surge in AI-driven demand for data centers has forced consumer electronics companies into a fierce competition for dwindling supplies of the key components, driving prices sharply higher.
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