$1,199 iPhone 18 Pro — Apple cut parts orders by at least 15%.
Nikkei: Oct Pro/Pro Max orders trimmed on soft demand after memory-driven price hikes. Pro is $100 above last year.
IDC: 2026 shipments −16.7%, average prices +27.6%.
Is AI memory pricing phones out of reach?
[EXCLUSIVE] 80% OF SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS’ SUPPLY VOLUME FOR NEXT YEAR IS COVERED BY LONG-TERM CONTRACTS
According to Korean media reports, Samsung Electronics has already secured long-term agreements (LTAs) covering 75–80% of its memory supply volume for next year, including high-bandwidth memory (HBM). It has reportedly finalized most of its contracts with major tech companies, including NVIDIA, Google, and Microsoft. SK hynix and U.S.-based Micron are also moving quickly to lock in volumes, signing a series of large-scale long-term contracts with key customers.
Samsung Electro-Mechanics is also reportedly close to signing an LTA worth KRW 700 billion to supply multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) to Delta Electronics, a Taiwanese power electronics company.
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1/ One of Ethereum's top researchers just asked crypto to plan a "controlled mass migration" of coins.
The threat isn't quantum. It's AI-accelerated math.
6.0M–6.9M BTC (30–34% of supply) already sits on visible public keys.
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@herbertong@thejefflutz No, we will build and run the fab. Let there be ZERO doubt about that.
Maybe TSMC subleases part of the Terafab if they want, but nothing more than that.