Qualcomm confirms incoming price hike, and rising memory cost isn’t the only driving factor
If you were hoping your next Android phone might come with a friendlier price tag, you may want to temper your expectations. Qualcomm just confirmed it’s raising chip prices starting September 1, and CEO Cristiano Amon didn’t dress up the reason. “Cost went up, prices are going to go up,” he told CNBC.
- ▪If you were hoping your next Android phone might come with a friendlier price tag, you may want to temper your expectations.
- ▪Qualcomm just confirmed it’s raising chip prices starting September 1, and CEO Cristiano Amon didn’t dress up the reason.
- ▪“Cost went up, prices are going to go up,” he told CNBC.
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If you were hoping your next Android phone might come with a friendlier price tag, you may want to temper your expectations. Qualcomm just confirmed it’s raising chip prices starting September 1, and CEO Cristiano Amon didn’t dress up the reason. “Cost went up, prices are going to go up,” he told CNBC. Qualcomm chips power a huge share of the world’s Android phones, so a hike at the source is likely to reach store shelves eventually. Rising costs go beyond memory Qualcomm’s own earnings report points to a broad jump in costs across wafer fabrication, assembly, testing, packaging, and memory. Amon called the resulting hit to margins a temporary problem the company is fixing with price increases, though he did not say what margin the company is targeting.
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