These are the devices that have increased their price

Samsung has already applied notable increases in its DRAM chips, Micron announced the abandonment of the consumer memory market under the Crucial brand, Lenovo wanted to choose to secure long-term memory contracts given the increase forecasts and, recently, Xiaomi has made some devices in its catalog more expensive in China.

The newspaper Gizmochina emphasizes that The increases vary between 100 and 200 yuan (between ten and almost 25 euros at the exchange rate in Spain, approximately), mainly affecting the Xiaomi Pad 8 tablets and all configurations of the Redmi Pad 2. In the case of the first mentioned tablet, the base tablet has an initial price of 2,299 yuan compared to the previous 2,199 yuan, while the other electronic device has increased its initial price from 2,799 yuan to 2,899 yuan. Furthermore, according to the aforementioned media, “the The basic Redmi Pad 2 range was the most affectedwith a price increase of 200 yuan on all models.”

Industry analysts estimate that This adjustment is due to the continued rise in prices of memory and storage chips, considering that a recent report from a global supplier Trend Strength forecasts another significant increase in storage prices in the first quarter of 2026.

At the moment, we know that these increases have repercussions on the supply chain and that the price increases for Xiaomi tablets are a clear example of how the industry copes with change.

Your Xiaomi mobile could stop updating in 2026: these are the models affected

Regardless of the price increase announcement, it was recently announced that a few Xiaomi, Redmi and POCO phones have reached the end of their support, so they will stop updating in 2026.

This means that affected models will no longer receive software updates and They won’t have security patches eitherowners will therefore not have the new features of the HyperOS operating system and will be exposed to potential security threats. Here are the models concerned: