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Apple raises Mac, iPad prices 15 to 25 percent; signals possible iPhone hike

Apple has raised prices for its Mac and iPad lines, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The increases come a week after CEO Tim Cook said higher prices were unavoidable because memory and storage chip costs had surged. Mac prices rose about 15 to 20 percent and iPads 15 to 25 percent. iPhone prices were unchanged, but Apple signalled possible further increases.

Industry

imec advances ferroelectric memory as potential alternative to DRAM and NAND

As memory shortages deepen at AI data centres, European semiconductor research group imec has unveiled next-generation ferroelectric memory technology that could replace DRAM and NAND flash. The work, presented at the 2026 IEEE-JSAP VLSI Technology and Circuits Symposium, centres on a low-voltage ferroelectric capacitor and a vertically stacked transistor structure using backgate modification. Imec said the research remains at proof-of-concept stage with technical challenges still to solve.

Industry

Retail SSD market is almost over, Silicon Motion executive says, as AI shifts supply

The retail solid-state drive market has effectively shrunk sharply in the first half of this year, an industry assessment showed. Silicon Motion Vice President Nelson Duan said the retail SSD market has almost disappeared, as end demand for the company’s SSD controllers shifts from retail products to OEM products for PC makers. He linked the change to NAND flash suppliers allocating more output to data-centre products amid the AI boom.