The myth of ever-cheaper technology is collapsing.
And this time, it’s not a passing crisis.
Rising component prices, the disappearance of mid-range devices, cloud providers passing their costs onto businesses… Techflation is no longer an economist’s hypothesis: it’s showing up in your IT budgets and your wallet.
What this article breaks down:
– Why smartphones under $300 are simply going to disappear
– How financial markets are still ignoring the true depth of this crisis
– What strategies companies and governments are starting to adopt to reclaim control over their digital sovereignty
Between the Androidcalypse reshaping the mobile market, the extreme fragility of semiconductor supply chains, and the rise of new alternatives (RISC-V, open source AI), the digital world as we know it is undergoing a profound transformation.
The question is no longer whether things will change. It’s already happening.