Memory costs have exploded in 2026, leading Apple and other computing giants to jack up laptop prices.

Apple Inc. AAPL-Q -0.34% raised iPad and MacBook prices on Thursday, saying it could no longer shield customers from soaring memory and storage chip costs driven by the AI industry’s data-centre build...

The price increases are in effect globally and are largely unprecedented, with no equivalent in the company's modern history of sweeping hikes across much of its product line.