Chipflation Hits Big Tech While Bitcoin Struggles Under 60k

Tech-driven price pressures and structural constraints continue to steer the market's trajectory, keeping overall risk appetite on a tight leash. Concerns over 'chipflation' are moving from a theoretical risk to a corporate reality, as both Apple and Microsoft have implemented product price hikes to offset skyrocketing memory and storage costs driven by AI demand [1][2][3]. These defensive pricing moves are raising fresh questions about consumer resilience [1][4] and whether massive capital expenditures in artificial intelligence can deliver the margins required to support current valuations [5][6]. While software stocks are attempting to establish a local floor [7][8], semiconductors…