The rush to the world’s largest chip order manufacturer TSMC is said to be so high that the company wants to cancel the previously granted discounts for bulk buyers from 2021. This is reported by the Taiwanese news agency Central News Agency, according to which TSMC is said to have granted a three percent discount so far. That doesn’t sound like a lot at first, but with tens of thousands of wafers per month, the savings quickly add up.

At TSMC, new generations of production are currently the first available in high capacities. Among other things, AMD ensures high utilization of Ryzen 3000 processors, Epyc in the 7 nanometer generation , Radeon-RX – 6000 – graphics cards and console systems-on-chips for the Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X. Apple takes TSMC the first large quantities 5- nm wafer for the A 14 of the iPhone 12 and the M1 of the ARM Macs. Intel also wants to have TSMC manufactured from 2021. Means: the chip order maker doesn’t have to worry about finding customers at the moment.

From 2021 noticeable When asked, TSMC explained that they did not comment on prices in their own production. If the Central News Agency is right, higher production costs should be (slightly) noticeable in the business figures of manufacturers, more precisely in the margin, within a year at the latest. Initially, the contracts concluded so far continue to run with fixed purchase quantities and prices, which are regularly negotiated between chip order manufacturers and chip manufacturers. All graphics chips from the GA 102 roll off the production line at the South Koreans, which means the complete GeForce series RTX 3000 includes. Only the server accelerator A 100 with GA 100 – GPU lets Nvidia produce with 7 nm technology at TSMC. Rumors are said to have tried Nvidia with Samsung as a second manufacturer to put price pressure on TSMC.

(mma)