Apple to raise prices due to memory chip shortage, CEO tells WSJ
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Apple's CEO has told the Wall Street Journal the company will raise prices in response to a memory chip shortage, marking a notable departure from Apple's historically tight supply-chain management. With FY2025 revenue at $416.2B (+6.4% YoY) and gross margins already at 46.9%, the company enters this dynamic from a position of relative strength, but price increases on flagship hardware carry real volume risk in a macro-sensitive consumer environment.
The second-order question is whether AAPL can pass through costs without denting unit demand — and what the shortage signal means for memory suppliers like Micron and SK Hynix. Watch for analyst price-target revisions and any guidance updates at the next earnings print; if elasticity proves higher than expected, the margin cushion erodes faster than the headline suggests.
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Two-sidedWrong ifIf price increases suppress unit volumes meaningfully, AAPL's revenue growth trajectory breaks and the margin cushion is illusory. For MU, if the shortage reflects weakening end demand rather than supply discipline, the thesis flips bearish.
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