What sky high RAM prices mean for your next smartphone?

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If you’ve considered building or upgrading a PC lately, you’ve likely noticed the shockingly high price of memory. RAM kits that sold for reasonable sums just a year ago now routinely cost two to three times as much, and prices continue to rise while some sets are increasingly challenging to obtain entirely.

Smartphone owners may feel insulated from these swings, since we don’t buy or install mobile RAM ourselves. However, the same forces driving up PC memory prices are quietly reshaping the smartphones we may plan to purchase next year. Here’s what you need to know.




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