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Apple Quietly Scoops Up Any Available LPDDR5 Supply While Freezing iPhone Prices, Pushing Chinese OEMs To Kill Their Ultra Flagships<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-05-03 12:33:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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In an era of unprecedented memory-led chaos in the global smartphone sphere, Apple lobbed nothing short of a bombshell during its earnings call this week, declaring that TSMC’s advanced node capacity – not memory – was the main bottleneck for its products.<\/p>\n

Think about this. As per conservative estimates, Apple’s iPhones are all set to consume 2.4 exabytes of memory this year! And yet, the Cupertino tech giant declares it is not memory-constrained, while seemingly capping the prices of its products. This declaration is nothing short of a gauntlet for Chinese OEMs: Apple is coming after your market share!<\/p>\n

Apple’s cunning strategy is forcing Chinese OEMs to cede ground when it comes to the high-end smartphone segment<\/h2>\n

We reported on a specific bit of supply chain chatter in early April, which suggested that\u00a0Apple was actively buying up “all available mobile DRAM\u00a0on the market” to prevent its competitors from securing enough memory chips.<\/p>\n

A few days later, Daishin Securities partially validated that supply chain chatter by postulating that\u00a0Apple was actively hoarding memory\u00a0to prevent its competitors from reaching their respective shipment targets, all the while increasing its own iPhone shipment target to a still-conservative 240 million units.<\/p>\n

Now, another report indicates that Apple – with Samsung following suit – is “sweeping the LPDDR market” while signing long-term agreements (LTAs) with major memory vendors. <\/p>\n

Concurrently, Apple is trying to freeze the prices of its products as much as possible. When a price hike becomes inevitable, Apple appears more than willing to sacrifice the base variants, as was the case with the M4-based Mac mini recently, to freeze prices at the high end.<\/p>\n

Chinese OEMs are weighing whether to cancel or make Ultra flagships more exclusive as BOM costs hit about $917. It raises a real question: were Apple and Samsung right to pace their upgrades instead of pushing specs too…<\/p>\n

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