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Acer PC price increase projections

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Acer CEO Jason Chen has warned of a “technological inflation” that could drive the prices of PCs and notebooks up by 5% to 20% by the fourth quarter of 2026. This trend is driven by rising costs for essential components, specifically RAM and SSDs, as the industry's demand for AI-focused semiconductors pressures the global memory chip supply chain. Price increases are expected to most heavily impact high-capacity configurations, such as devices featuring 16 GB to 32 GB of RAM or SSDs with 1 TB or more capacity. While standard DDR4 and DDR5 supplies are improving and CPU availability remains generally stable, high-end specifications and certain mid-range models continue to face supply constraints. This volatility is attributed to the AI boom, which has shifted production capacity toward high-bandwidth memory for AI accelerators. Chen anticipates that average selling prices for PCs will peak around mid-2027 before beginning a downward trend in the second half of that year. He has dismissed predictions that memory shortages will persist until 2030, citing increased production capacity from Chinese ~~manufacturers~~ manufacturers, such as CXMT and YMTC, as a stabilizing factor. He also noted that the impact on final consumer products is subject to a time lag between component procurement and retail availability.

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