alt.hn

7/21/2026 at 1:40:51 PM

TSMC eyes price hikes of up to 25% on chip production services in 2027

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/tsmc-eyes-price-hikes-of-up-to-25-percent-on-chip-production-services-in-2027-report-claims-plans-to-raise-baseline-prices-by-5-percent-to-10-percent-on-advanced-nodes

by speckx

7/21/2026 at 4:40:30 PM

Nobody asked.

No -- really, I'm not being dismissive here. The average person has given up on RAM prices coming down. They aren't stopping their consumption of such (although they are slowing down) but everyone and their grandma knows RAM is expensive and it going from "really expensive" to "really realy expensive" is not going to phase 99% of the population at this point.

1000 dollarydoos for a stick of RAM vs 1250 dollars isn't gonna make it any less accessible when it's already inaccessible.

I also find it highly suspect that every time china announces it has made major strides in producing good-enough memory that suddenly every western news site/station/app is all "omg ram will never get cheaper".

by lardosaurusrex

7/21/2026 at 4:43:13 PM

> The average person has given up on RAM prices coming down.

It's been less than a year. That's way too fast to give up.

Anyway TSMC isn't making RAM.

by Dylan16807

7/21/2026 at 4:56:47 PM

People say things like "remember when trump was saying canada was flooding the US with fentanyl wait what do you mean that was only few months ago"

Feelings don't operate with a timeline and there is no right or wrong length of time for them to be felt or ignored. There is no logic to this or anything else and going "but its only been--" is so laughably naive that I genuinely hope you manage to have a good life.

by lardosaurusrex

7/21/2026 at 5:09:26 PM

Well if you're just talking about surface level feelings with almost no connection to reality then I'm not sure why you brought them up. Okay people think that when they don't think. You can't draw useful conclusions from that.

by Dylan16807

7/21/2026 at 4:02:14 PM

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by zb3

7/21/2026 at 4:39:05 PM

Who are you suggesting do so? It would be weird to think mainland China would give consistent and non-manipulative pricing to the rest of the world, and any other option is very silly.

by Dylan16807