The era of tech "shrinkflation" is beginning

XDA developers | July 28, 2026, 10:43 a.m. | Original
The RAM price crisis and difficulties at its internal chips division make this a weird time for Google hardware.
I ditched Claude Code for a local model and a cloud supervisor, and it's twice as fast Orange Pi ships an Android image that can't boot on its most expensive Zero 3W, and I found out why