iPhone Price Hike 2026: Tim Cook admits – now it is a compulsion to increase the price, Donald Trump announces Apple-Intel mega deal

If you are also planning to buy a new iPhone in the coming days, then this news can completely spoil your budget. Tim Cook, CEO of tech giant Apple, himself has admitted that due to the current market conditions, it has become a compulsion for the company to increase the prices of iPhones. However, immediately after this shock, US President Donald Trump has made a big announcement which has shocked the tech and business markets of the entire world. According to Trump, a historic deal has been signed between American chipmaker Intel and Apple, under which the iPhone’s super-fast computer chips will now be manufactured entirely within America. Why are iPhones going to become expensive? Tim Cook told the real reason. Apple CEO Tim Cook has made it clear in a very special interview given to ‘Wall Street Journal’ that the increase in the prices of his upcoming products cannot be postponed any longer. Tim Cook has held ‘AI Boom’ as the biggest responsible behind this. He told that at present the demand for Artificial Intelligence technology has increased rapidly all over the world, due to which the manufacturing cost (cost price) of high-end memory and storage chips used in the tech industry is skyrocketing. According to Tim Cook, Apple itself bore the burden of these increased expenses for a long time so that it did not have a direct impact on customers, but now the situation is completely out of control. The only way left now is to increase the prices of devices to maintain profits and provide advanced technology. Donald Trump’s big blast: Intel and Apple come together, dependence on Taiwan will end. Amid reports of rising iPhone prices, US President Donald Trump revealed this historic diplomatic and business deal through a post on his social media platform ‘Truth Social’. Trump said that Intel has finalized a grand agreement with Apple to make advanced computer chips on American soil. Trump wrote that he decided to help Intel because America desperately needs to become self-reliant on the technological front and design and build chips domestically. As soon as this news became public, Intel shares jumped more than 9% in pre-market trading on Wall Street. This step will help Apple a lot in securing its supply chain. In fact, till now the California-based Apple company was completely dependent on Taiwan (especially TSMC) for the advanced processors and silicon chips that power its iPhone, iPad and Mac computers. This was a huge business risk for Apple in view of the ever-increasing geopolitical tension between China and Taiwan. Now by joining hands with Intel, Apple will be able to safely produce its chips in America’s domestic plant. Trump’s ‘magical’ investment: The US government made crores of profits in 9 months. President Donald Trump also proudly mentioned in his post that in August last year, his administration had bought a stake of about 10% in the Intel company by making a huge government investment of $8.9 billion. Trump quipped that when this government deal was made, the total market value of Intel was around $ 100 billion. But within just 9 months, today Intel’s value has crossed the record level of more than $600 billion. This simply means that the value of the US government’s 10% stake has now reached above ₹ 60 billion dollars, which has brought bumper profits to the US treasury. National security and the dream of a self-reliant America: Making America the world’s largest and sole leader in the semiconductor (chipmaking) industry is one of the biggest priorities of Trump’s second term. The US government believes that with a strong supply chain of advanced chips domestically, there will be no threat to the country’s national security and foreign dependence will end. However, no official press note has been issued by Apple yet on this entire mega deal and the increased prices of iPhone, but tech experts believe that it is certain that premium smartphone lovers will be out of pocket in the coming days.