The world's largest chip maker, Taiwan's TSMC, has announced a 20% price increase for its products since December. The increase will affect microcontrollers, systems-on-a-chip, graphics chips and other products. Since the fall of 2020, products from Taiwanese manufacturers have already increased in price by 10%. The new rise in price has become a record one. It is associated with growing demand, which is outstripping supply.
TSMC holds 56% of the microprocessor market. Its closest competitor Samsung produces 18%, the rest of the companies have market shares of less than 10%, the Nikkei reported.
The price of cutting-edge 7nm chips will rise by 10%. Such processors are used by many modern companies, including Ryzen, Qualcomm and Apple. 16-nanometer components will rise in price immediately by 20%.
During 2021, demand for chips rose to a record amid the 2020 crisis and logistics disruptions. TSMC is currently investing $ 100 billion to expand production and build factories in the state of Arizona in the United States and in Japan's Kumamoto.
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