by Pablo López 1 hour ago …

It seems that TSMC is going to stop offering discounts to companies that request the chip manufacturing, which may lead to an increase in numerous products with the latest technology.

According to Taiwanese Central News Agency, TSMC is no longer going to lower the prices of the manufacture of silicon wafers , which until now had a 3% discount if X wafers were purchased per month. In this way, companies like AMD, NVIDIA and Apple (their largest contracts for the 5 and 7 nm technology nodes of TSMC), will have to pay more to obtain the same amount , which can have a direct impact on the face sale price consumers.

Although TSMC does not seems to have said nothing directly, it is not unreasonable to think about this due to the extremely high demand that products manufactured directly in their nodes, such as NVIDIA RTX 30 or AMD Ryzen processors.

Prices of processors, graphics and high-end smartphones may rise during the 2021

The shortage of these products is due to the fact that the nodes of TSMC manufacturing does not provide enough , and there is no other company in the world with the necessary technology ia to manufacture them. So it is sensible to think that the information is true, although we may not see the impact on prices for a few months because they continue to have contracts in force with these discounts. Other companies such as Qualcomm will also suffer this mishap, which will be seen during the 2021 with the arrival of the Snapdragon 888 on smartphones.

In addition, let us remember that increases in the price of RAM are expected due to a blackout in Micron factories.

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