New phones keep getting more expensive. The chips powering them are becoming more extreme, too

This year, Qualcomm’s second phone chip sits above the flagship, and it seems to be a move to battle rising costs. — Image by rawpixel.com on Magnific

In late July, Qualcomm told the companies that buy its chips that prices would rise by a double-digit percentage after Sept 1. The company said it had exhausted its ability to absorb higher costs from its suppliers and that it had already tried buying parts from new sources to keep those costs down.

Two months later, and Qualcomm invited me to the Snapdragon Summit in Maui, where it announced two flagship phone chips: the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 (the successor to last year’s 8 Elite Gen 5) and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. The Extreme is a new tier on top, built, in the words of a Qualcomm spokesperson, for “the best, most aspirational devices.”

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今年，高通的第二款手机芯片定位高于旗舰芯片，这似乎是为了应对不断上涨的成本。——图片来自rawpixel.com，刊登于Magnific网站。

7 月下旬，高通公司告知其芯片供应商，9 月 1 日之后芯片价格将上涨两位数百分比。该公司表示，其已无力承受供应商上涨的成本，并且已经尝试从新的供应商处采购零部件以降低成本。

两个月后，高通邀请我参加在毛伊岛举行的骁龙峰会，会上发布了两款旗舰手机芯片：骁龙 8 Elite Gen 6（去年 8 Elite Gen 5 的继任者）和骁龙 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6。Extreme 是更高一级的产品，用高通发言人的话来说，它是为“最好、最令人向往的设备”而打造的。

三星售价700美元的Galaxy 26 FE即使做出诸多妥协，价格还是上涨了。

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三星发布更大尺寸可折叠手机，因芯片成本上涨而上调价格

苹果将​​跳过高端M6 Mac芯片，转而采用专注于人工智能的M7系列芯片。

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