Now eats 60% of a sub $400 handset bill of materials and it only getting worse Rising memory prices are making budget smartphones commercially unviable to produce, forcing users to delay upgrades, pay more for higher tier devices, or turn to the second hand market instead. This is according to analyst Omdia, which estimates memory costs accounted for almost 60 percent of the total bill of materials in sub $400 smartphones during calendar Q1 of 2026 – and things havent improved since then. In...
