iPhone 18 Pro Price Hike May Not Just Be Fueled By Soaring DRAM Costs, But Also Because Of This Camera Upgrade
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Publish Date: 2026-05-29 09:16:00
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Apple is getting close to using up its existing DRAM supply, which only means that from that point on, it’ll be forced to cough up hefty premiums for future shipments, drastically nullifying its ability to keep a price hike at bay when launching the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max. However, the company is also feeling the same price pressure elsewhere, and surprisingly, it’s due to bringing a unique camera upgrade later this year.
The variable aperture camera arriving to the iPhone 18 Pro could be 50 percent more expensive, predicts analyst
Aside from mentioning that the iPhone 21 could feature a major ultrawide-angle camera upgrade, TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has stated that the iPhone 18 Pro’s and iPhone 18 Pro Max’s variable aperture camera will be a costly addition, as it’ll be 50 percent more expensive than the 7P plastic lens Apple employs in the iPhone 17 Pro.
Sunny Optical is expected to supply its customer with 40-50 percent of total orders, hinting that it’ll monetarily benefit from this partnership. The price increase of the variable aperture camera may also explain why other manufacturers haven’t adopted the technology in droves, with only Samsung bringing it in its older-generation Galaxy S flagships, then dropping the hardware altogether.
Then again, it’s possible that the technology Samsung brought to the Galaxy S9 was just an introductory version since there were only two modes to choose from. With Apple bringing this upgrade almost eight years later, we shouldn’t be surprised to see some top-notch advancements, such as enabling multiple aperture modes for manual photography and videography capture, being the bare…
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