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Smartphone shipments are forecast to fall 15% as memory flows to servers

development2026-06-19

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CCS Insight expects smartphone shipments to drop roughly 15% as memory flows to richer server chips, and Tim Cook said Apple price increases are unavoidable.

Reported metric: -15%

Reporting date: 2026-06-19 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to June 19, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Memory passes half the cost of a handset

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Smartphone shipments are forecast to fall 15% as memory flows to servers
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-06-19
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-06-19-smartphone-shipments-to-fall-fifteen-percent
Claim: CCS Insight expects smartphone shipments to drop roughly 15% as memory flows to richer server chips, and Tim Cook said Apple price increases are unavoidable.
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- Welcome to June 19, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-june-19-2026
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