Igeekphone October 28 news, Redmi general manager Wang Teng and rice flour interaction said that Redmi K80 series will increase prices, as far as possible to rise less.
Looking back at the flagship mobile phone released this month, major manufacturers have set off a wave of price increases, and the reason is that the price increase of CPU and memory chips is a key factor.
Wang Teng said that this year’s flagship processor upgrade to the latest 3nm process, the process cost has increased significantly, and memory after a year of price increases, has reached a high point, so the version of large memory has increased more.
According to reports, due to the price increase of TSMC’s 3nm process, the cost of Mediatek Tianguet 9400 and Snapdragon 8 Gen4 produced by the process has skyrocketed, of which the Snapdragon 8 Gen4 price has come to $190 (about 1354 yuan).
In the past year, memory prices have also continued to rise, which has led to the most obvious change in the industry is that many manufacturers cut 24GB+1TB storage, and turned to 16GB+1TB.
TrendForce analysts said that in the first quarter of this year, the price of mobile DRAM rose by more than 20%, and the rise in mobile memory prices was mainly due to the production reduction of original storage factories and the recovery of demand for smart phones.
In particular, Huawei launched a new machine at the end of the third quarter of last year, which led to the sales of Chinese brand mobile phones in the fourth quarter, and promoted the inventory replenishment of various manufacturers in the first quarter of this year, coupled with the arrival of the AI era, AI demand also further promoted the price rise of memory products.
As the annual flagship, the Redmi K80 series is the first batch to carry the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen4 platform, which will also usher in price increases.
In addition, the K80 series is standard with 2K straight screen, battery capacity is at least 6000mAh, and the new product will be officially released in November.