Kuai Technology reported on October 28 that Redmi General Manager Wang Teng interacted with Mi Fans and said that the price of the Redmi K80 series will increase, as little as possible. Looking back at the flagship mobile phones released this month, major manufacturers have launc

Kuai Technology News on October 28, Redmi general manager Wang Teng said during an interaction with Mifen that the price of the Redmi K80 series will increase, as little as possible.

Looking back at the flagship mobile phones released this month, major manufacturers have launched a wave of price increases. The reason is that the price increase of CPU and memory chips is the key factor.

Wang Teng said that this year’s flagship processor has been upgraded to the latest 3nm process, and the process cost has increased significantly. Moreover, after a year of continuous price increases of memory, it has reached a high point, so the large memory version has increased even more.

According to reports, due to the price increase of TSMC’s 3nm process, the cost of MediaTek Dimensity 9400 and Snapdragon 8 gen4 produced by using this process has skyrocketed. Among them, the price of Snapdragon 8 gen4 has reached US$190 (approximately RMB 1,354).

In the past year, memory prices have continued to rise. The most obvious change in the industry is that many manufacturers have cut off 24gb+1tb storage and instead mainly promote 16gb+1tb.

trendforce analysts said that in the first quarter of this year, the price of mobile phone DRAM increased by more than 20%. The increase in mobile phone memory prices was mainly due to the production reduction of original storage manufacturers and the recovery of smartphone demand.

Especially Huawei launched new phones at the end of the third quarter last year, which drove the sales of Chinese brand mobile phones in the fourth quarter. The first quarter of this year promoted the replenishment of inventories by various manufacturers. Coupled with the arrival of the AI ​​era, AI demand has also further promoted memory. Product prices increase.

As the flagship of the year, the redmi k80 series is the first batch to be equipped with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 gen4 platform, which will also see a price increase.

In addition, the k80 series comes standard with a 2k direct screen and a battery capacity of at least 6000mah. The new product will be officially released in November.