Independent phone and laptop makers are redesigning products, testing incoming chips for fakes and passing on costs as a memory shortage they expect to last through 2027 squeezes the lower end of the device market. Availability, not price, is the binding constraint, executives at three companies said. "If you don't have allocation, you're out of the game anyhow," said Raymond van Eck, chief executive of Dutch repairable-phone maker Fairphone.