Graphics cards could get even more expensive next year, here’s why

Unless you have been living under a rock, you have probably noticed that most computer products such as graphic cards and processors are more expensive than ever. And, well, they could be more expensive soon, since TSMC may be growing their semiconductor prices.

According to Wall Street Journal, TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) is looking to raise the prices up to 20% to compensate for the huge click on the demand for chips. And while PC players feel it because it is difficult to buy a graphical card, this scarcity of global silicone is affecting everything from the iPad to automotive manufacturing.

At this time, it is still seeing exactly how much the prices of the TSMC product will increase, but according to the WSJ sources, the prices would increase by 10% for its most advanced chips and 20% for chips that use old technologies. Fortunately, graphic cards and desktop processors generally use cutting-edge manufacturing processes, so they must be somewhere at the lower end of the scale.

Nor do we know if the manufacturers will transmit or not these costs to consumers, but it is likely to be safe to assume that they will. As for how many prices they will upload to the shelves of the store, it remains to be seen, but it is not like graphic cards are exactly affordable at this time.

Analysis: Dumped waters.

Due to the shortage of hardware, we are going through now, the prices are equal throughout the place, even before taking this news into consideration. While we praised the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 because it is not more expensive than RTX 2080 when it was launched, it did not take long because the resellers do Nvidia’s reasonable MSRP a dream of pipeline.

Now that the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 has been out of almost a year, it would be awaited to find any version of the graphics card that sells for the $ 699 that NVIDIA quoted when it released the GPU in September 2020. Most people. The graphic card manufacturers of the party have increased their prices, and they are still selling the second that are available.

Now, NVIDIA will not necessarily be affected by TSMC price increases, since the Green team has been using the 8nm Samsung process for your Nvidia Ampere graphic cards, but it will absolutely affect AMD Radeon’s cards in the future. And, it is also completely possible that Samsung also increases the prices of their semiconductors, too.

So, although it could be nice to think that the prices of graphics letters will not increase too much in response to the increase in the cost of semiconductors, we would not be surprised if they did, most graphic cards have already risen in price, and it is Not as AMD or NVIDIA they are having problems selling through all their actions.