Semiconductor manufacturing is becoming more expensive
The world’s two largest contracted semiconductor manufacturers, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation and United Microelectronics Corporation, have announced that they will reduce discounts for customers, which, of course, will of course result in higher production costs for companies as a whole.
One of the best-selling parts families is the control electronics for 0,35-micron LCD displays, which raises the $ 550-750 price per wafer from $ 750-850, which was common in the previous two quarters.
While, say, our CPUs are made with a bandwidth of 90 nanometers, or 0,09 microns, it is more cost-effective in many areas to use the good old 0,25 and 0,50 microns, for example, a lot of analog circuits are made at the latter level, so both manufacturers are working at full capacity. also with two technologies that already sound obsolete to many.
