Apple raises iPhone prices across lineup amid global memory chip shortage

In the shadow of artificial intelligence's insatiable appetite for memory, Apple has raised iPhone prices across its India lineup by as much as Rs 30,000 — a quiet but consequential reminder that the infrastructure of tomorrow is being built at the expense of the consumer devices of today. The global semiconductor supply chain, long a hidden backbone of modern life, is now visibly straining under the competing demands of data centers and living rooms. What unfolds in India is not merely a pricing adjustment by one company, but a signal of a deeper reordering: the AI era is extracting its costs