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March 17 news, according to media Digitimes reports, TSMC, which raised wafer foundry prices many times during the chip shortage, may raise prices again in the second half of this year.

The relevant media quoted sources from semiconductor equipment manufacturers as saying that TSMC may consider raising prices again in the second half of this year.

Unlike the price increases that began at the end of 2020, the overall global supply of chips is not tight, memory chips are obviously in surplus, and wafer foundry capacity is not as tight as in the previous two years. Even if the process is advanced, TSMC, which accounts for half of the global wafer foundry market, has seen a decline in capacity utilization this year and is not tight, so the reasons why they are likely to raise prices in the second half of the year are different from those before.

As for the reason why TSMC wafer foundry prices are likely to rise in the second half of the year, sources from semiconductor equipment suppliers have revealed that they are related to rising costs in order to cope with rising costs.

However, since sources from semiconductor equipment manufacturers did not disclose more information about the possible price increase in TSMC in the second half of the year, it is not clear how much the price increase may be and the process that may be involved.

In the several price increases that began at the end of 2020, TSMC's price increases were selective, not all the contract manufacturing prices of all processes were raised at once, and the prices of some processes were raised each time.

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