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It's 'unavoidable': Apple says it will be forced to raise prices due to the AI boom

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It's 'unavoidable': Apple says it will be forced to raise prices due to the AI boom

Apple plans to hike its prices, citing the rising costs of storage chips and memory, CEO Tim Cook says.

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Apple plans to hike its prices, citing the rising costs of storage chips and memory, CEO Tim Cook says.

Tech giants are gobbling up memory chips for AI servers, leaving Apple with soaring component costs that Tim Cook says will inevitably be passed on to consumers. Apple plans to hike its prices, citing the rising costs of storage chips and memory, CEO Tim Cook says.

MarketWatch reported the story as "It's 'unavoidable': Apple says it will be forced to raise prices due to the AI boom." New York Post reported the story as "Apple's Tim Cook says price hikes are on the way, citing memory chip crunch."

2 sources have covered this story, including New York Post and MarketWatch. The earliest reporting in the cluster landed about 19 hours ago.

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