The new iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max launch tomorrow with price tags $100 higher than what their 2025 predecessors cost. Even older models from the iPhone 17 and 16 series weren’t spared the $100 price hike. Unfortunately, this isn’t the end of it and new reports claim that Apple will raise prices again next year.
A couple of days ago, Korean publications reported that Samsung is renegotiating DRAM and NAND prices with smartphone manufacturers, including Apple. It seems that Samsung and Apple have now reached an agreement on the new prices.
Apple will reportedly pay close to $2.00 per gigabit of LPDDR5X RAM and $0.33 per gigabit of NAND storage starting in Q1 2027. For comparison, Samsung’s prices in Q3 2026 were $1.50 and $0.26, respectively.
Apple wasn’t the only smartphone maker that Samsung asked back to the negotiating table. Interestingly, however, Oppo and vivo reportedly refused to accept the higher prices that Samsung was asking. We may have to wait for teardowns of their next flagships to find out which supplier they went with instead.
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