{"id":23191,"date":"2026-05-21T16:37:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/bt-warns-of-smartphone-price-rises-due-to-chip-shortages-from-ai-boom\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T16:37:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:37:22","slug":"bt-warns-of-smartphone-price-rises-due-to-chip-shortages-from-ai-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/bt-warns-of-smartphone-price-rises-due-to-chip-shortages-from-ai-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"BT warns of smartphone price rises due to chip shortages from AI boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telecoms company CEO says tech firms are buying up memory chips to power datacentres relied on by AI<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/business\/live\/2026\/may\/21\/nvidia-beats-wall-street-ai-chip-boom-asia-tech-stocks-business-live-news\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>BT has said the cost of smartphones could rise as technology companies buy up semiconductor chips because of the boom in artificial intelligence, putting pressure on supply chains.<\/p>\n<p>The telecoms company\u2019s chief executive, Allison Kirkby, said she was anticipating shortages as tech firms <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/06\/ramageddon-cheap-phones-laptops-macbooks-ps5s-ai-chips\">bought large quantities of memory chips<\/a> to power the datacentres relied on by AI.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/21\/bt-smartphone-price-rises-chip-shortages-ai-boom\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d9b2d86d10fcc0cbaca5fcec6f39c8562e75abbd\/1319_212_4489_3592\/master\/4489.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=da54e3bee495d7c01b28bc253b7f3102\" title=\"BT warns of smartphone price rises due to chip shortages from AI boom\" \/>Telecoms company CEO says tech firms are buying up memory chips to power datacentres relied on by AI<br \/>\nBusiness live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nBT has said the cost of smartphones could rise as technology companies buy up semiconductor chips because of the boom in artificial intelligence, putting pressure on supply chains.<br \/>\nThe telecoms company\u2019s chief executive, Allison Kirkby, said she was anticipating shortages as tech firms bought large quantities of memory chips to power the datacentres relied on by AI. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telecoms company CEO says tech firms are buying up memory chips to power datacentres relied on by AI Business live \u2013 latest updates BT has said the cost of smartphones could rise as technology companies buy up semiconductor chips because of the boom in artificial intelligence, putting pressure on supply chains. The telecoms company\u2019s chief &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/bt-warns-of-smartphone-price-rises-due-to-chip-shortages-from-ai-boom\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BT warns of smartphone price rises due to chip shortages from AI boom<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23191"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}