{
  "id": 14745697,
  "title": "Africa’s cheapest smartphones are disappearing as AI demand drives up chip costs",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/africas-cheapest-smartphones-are-disappearing-as-ai-demand-drives-up",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-15T17:03:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "BusinessDay Nigeria",
    "slug": "businessday-nigeria",
    "url": "https://businessday.ng/technology/article/africas-cheapest-smartphones-are-disappearing-as-ai-demand-drives-up-chip-costs/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Africa’s smartphone market faces mounting pressure as rising memory chip costs, driven by demand from the artificial intelligence (AI) industry,",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}