Podbit · The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
DRAM prices surged nearly 100% in Q1 2025, with another 60% jump expected in Q2. Building new chip factories takes years, which means this shortage is structural, not cyclical — and the inflationary pressure it creates will ripple through all consumer electronics for a long time.
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Alice Han draws a direct parallel to 2022, when Apple sought to buy chips from Chinese firm YMTC and ultimately backed down under political pressure. She asks whether an incoming Democratic wave in the midterms would make any CXMT deal even more politically toxic, noting that Congress has historically been more hawkish on China tech than the executive branch. James Kynge agrees the congressional mood favors containment but introduces a complicating variable: the inflationary effect of chip scarcity is already visible in Apple's price hikes — the MacBook Air jumped from $1,099 to $1,299 — and if inflation bites hard enough ahead of November, even anti-China legislators may find it politically untenable to block cheaper Chinese chips [1] — James Kynge "The will of Congress will start being fairly in favor of containing China, but then inflation — inflationary pressures, if they really begi…" 12:20 . Apple's stock fell more than 6% on the day the price hikes were announced, its steepest one-day drop since Liberation Day tariffs, signalling market expectations that Apple will have to absorb costs or pass them to consumers [2] — Alice Han "Apple stock fell 6%+ on price hike news: Apple's stock fell more than 6% the day price hikes were announced — the steepest single-day drop …" 13:40 . With $700 billion-plus in US data center CapEx flooding the market, hyperscalers running frontier AI models are effectively outbidding Apple for chip supply, leaving Apple in an uncomfortable second-tier position in the chip pecking order.
Apple raised the price of the MacBook Air from $1,099 to $1,299 — a roughly 18% increase — due to chip shortage pressures.
With over $700 billion in US data center CapEx commitments, AI hyperscalers running frontier models like Claude and ChatGPT are outbidding Apple for chip supply. Apple stock fell more than 6% on the day price hikes were announced — its worst single day since Liberation Day tariffs.
Apple's stock fell more than 6% the day price hikes were announced — the steepest single-day drop since Liberation Day tariffs in April.
DRAM memory chip prices surged nearly 100% in the first quarter of this year, with another 60% jump expected in Q2, creating what analysts are calling 'RAMageddon'.
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