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Consumer electronics pricing has run on a single assumption for decades: as computing costs fall, retail prices follow. The AI boom is breaking that assumption.
Prices for phones, laptops, and gaming consoles are already up, and retailers are forecasting further increases. The component allocation problem The constraint is supply and who gets priority when it tightens.
The chips and memory that go into mass-market consumer devices draw from the same pool that AI infrastructure builders are now pulling against hard.
As that buildout has accelerated, available supply for consumer hardware has tightened. When capacity is constrained, manufacturers and component suppliers allocate toward customers paying the highest margin per unit.
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