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Apple lifted prices on select MacBooks and iPads Thursday morning, the latest sign that a deepening memory crunch is pushing costs higher across consumer electronics.
The move came on the heels of a blowout earnings report from Micron, underscoring how tightening conditions in the memory market are flowing directly into retail pricing.
Micron's Blowout Quarter Sets the Stage Micron's strong earnings result is the clearest upstream signal of where memory pricing is heading.
When a major memory supplier beats expectations decisively, it typically reflects tightening supply conditions — the kind that compress input costs for device makers downstream.
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