Nothing Cancels This Year’s Cmf Phone Due To Ram Prices

Nothing’s co-founder says CMF couldn’t build a telephone ‘at a value that makes sense.’

Nothing’s adjacent fund telephone is nan latest unfortunate of RAMageddon. As 9to5Google reports, Nothing co-founder Akis Evangelidis announced successful a station connected X that a follow-up to nan CMF Phone 2 Pro won’t beryllium coming this year:

Last week, Nothing CEO and co-founder Carl Pei besides said nan RAM shortage has impacted nan costs of nan company’s mid-range phone, stating, “For Phone 4A, representation costs doubled betwixt erstwhile we decided to build nan instrumentality and erstwhile it launched. They’ve doubled again since.” According to Pei, “memory is now nan astir costly constituent successful a smartphone.” Nothing is acold from nan only institution facing RAM pricing challenges — earlier this week, Tim Cook announced Apple will beryllium raising prices, saying “the business has go unsustainable.”

While location won’t beryllium a caller CMF telephone this year, Evangelidis added successful his station that CMF still has “several caller products launching arsenic good arsenic immoderate wholly caller categories.” He besides hinted that “the smartphone motorboat play astatine Nothing isn’t complete yet.”