Big Tech to pay more as Taiwan foundry feels the squeeze

TSMC is about to squeeze more cash out of its clients by jacking up prices on its swankiest silicon. The Taiwanese foundry giant is planning a five to ten per cent hike on advanced nodes like 5nm, 4nm, 3nm and 2nm, to prop up its declining profit margins.

Up to 300 per cent

British chip technology supplier Arm wants to jack up tits royalty rates by up to 300 per cent and develop its own chips in a move that could place it in direct competition with its largest customers.

Apparently it is all due to the magic camera sensor

Apple’s volunteers in the mainstream media have been scratching their collective heads trying to come up with a reason why the iPhone 14 Pro price is so unreasonably high – even for Job’s Mob.

Expect it to get pricey after autumn

Chipzilla has decided that its chips are too cheap and it is going to jack up the prices, according to Nikkei Asia.

Because they are just too damn cheap

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn that says that Apple is about to jack up its prices from reassuringly expensive to obscenely pricey.

up by 6.5 percent

Nvidia has silently increased European prices of its RTX 3000 series Founders Edition graphics cards, to anywhere between 5 and 6.5 percent.

Nowhere near MSRP

Although the Radeon RX 6500 XT has been announced with a rather reasonable $199 MSRP, it appears that retailers/e-tailers have a slightly different idea and those could cost €300 in Europe.

To use some of the features you paid for you have to buy more stuff

Fruity cargo cult Apple is trying to flog an incredibly over-priced Iphone X but it seems that its $1000 starting price does not include important things like a charger.

Phison Electronics warns things will get worse

NAND flash prices have been inflating excessively lately and Phison Electronics chairman Khein Seng Pua warned that prices are set to go up again in the third quarter as end-market demand surges.

Components getting pricey

PC vendors are jacking up their prices as part costs, including display panels, DRAM, SSDs, Li batteries are getting more expensive.