Smartphone shipments fall to a decade low as memory is diverted

Claim

Smartphone shipments are expected to drop 12.9% to a decade low as AI-driven memory prices cannibalize consumer hardware, marking a handoff from the pocket device to the data center.

Reported metric: -12.9%

Reporting date: 2026-02-27 (not necessarily the event date)

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