The chip industry—as with many others, I'm sure—is, at least to onlookers like myself, in very uncertain waters of late, thanks to the United States' upsy-downy-round-and-roundy 'will he, won't he?' tariff position. The goal is ostensibly to have production shimmy on over to the US, but we're now hearing rumour that even some chip production that is already in the US might have its prices raised.
This latest rumour comes from Economic Daily (via TrendForce), which reports that "market sources say that due to the high demand for production capacity and reflecting costs, TSMC is planning to increase the price of [its] 4nm foundry at its new US plant by as much as 30%" (machine translated).
