If you want all these new fabs, you’re gonna pay for ’em, pal
TSMC is reportedly increasing its chip manufacturing prices by as much as 20 per cent in the near future. For things like microcontrollers and other components on larger process nodes – think 120nm down to about, we guess,16nm – TSMC will raise its prices by 20 per cent, and for higher-end processors and system-on-chips on its more-advanced nodes – everything else down to 7 and 5nm – prices will go up 10 per cent, according to the Wall Street Journal this week. Typically, the larger-process-node chips tend to be workhorses in vehicles, appliances, and most electronics, and state-of-the-art application processors and accelerators found in phones, PCs, and servers are fabricated using the smaller process nodes.
