… Industry Insiders Believe Chip Price Hikes Will Continue As Long As There Is Demand Before the rapid and large-scale AI infrastructure buildout shook up the semiconductor supply chain, firms such as Taiwan's Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company TSMC had to work with their customers to determi… …
… MSI said that it's a difficult year for both Intel and vendors, as they have to consider the price hikes when pricing their products. …
… The AI demand keeps gobbling up all the DRAM and NAND storage drives for the AI servers, while consumers receive them at 4-5X higher prices. That said, the report also suggests that NVIDIA will likely keep prices stagnant, at least for now, and there are no price hikes in the coming months. …
… The important point to note is that, on average, SSD prices have risen by up to 18% since October 2025, and when you factor in the incoming NAND chip price hikes, well, the current pricing looks like a bargain. …
Taiwanese contract chip manufacturing giant is raising prices for most of its manufacturing process technology nodes, according to a report from Culpium. The price hikes have come in response to the meteoric price hike by memory manufacturers, say the publication's sources. …
Consumer & Server CPUs will face severe shortages, and are expected to see price hikes till the third quarter of 2026. AMD & Intel CPUs For Consumers & Servers Are Getting More Expensive, AI Is To Blame We have reported how the Agentic AI surge is resulting in demand shifting from GPUs to CPUs . …
… These price hikes are due to rising DRAM costs, such as GDDR6, which are used by graphics cards. Since September, the AI segment demand has prompted a sharp rise in DRAM and NAND prices , which are affecting global memory supply and prices of various products. …
… Intel's CPU Price Hikes Could Go Up To 30% This Year Alone, Driven By Enterprise Demand CPU shortages are a new trouble brewing for gamers that has arrived with the AI infrastructure buildout, and sadly enough, the effects are already being seen in the retail market. …
… Instead, the production remains sluggish, and existing products are seeing massive price hikes of over 2x. It is reported that AMD has sent out a notification that, due to rising memory prices, it will also increase the prices of its GPU families. …
… Other manufacturers, including SK Hynix and Kioxia, are also preparing additional price increases. - Sedaily It is reported that NAND prices alone have surged by 450% last year, driven not just by demand from the AI sector, but also by manufacturers' struggle to balance DRAM and NAND production. …