Smartphone sales could be in for their biggest drop ever

The smartphone manufacture could acquisition a record-breaking diminution successful 2026 arsenic a effect of the RAM shortage stemming from memory-hungry AI giants. That's according to the latest study from the International Data Corporation (IDC), which forecasts smartphone shipments to plummet 12.9 percent this year, marking its "lowest yearly shipment measurement successful much than a decade."

At the aforesaid time, the mean selling terms for smartphones is acceptable to deed caller highs, with IDC predicting a 14 percent summation to a grounds $523. "While representation prices are projected to stabilize by mid-2027, they are improbable to instrumentality to erstwhile level," IDC elder researcher Na …

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