BlockBeats News, July 13th. According to Taiwan's Economic Daily News, after the price hike in advanced processes, IC design companies revealed that TSMC has also planned to increase wafer foundry prices in mature processes starting from January next year. Nevertheless, in order to sustain the expansion of the company's operation scale, negotiations for next year's wafer foundry capacity will continue, and efforts will be made to secure more capacity support than this year.

IC design firms stated that in the first half of this year, the price hike in mature processes by packaging and testing plants and wafer foundries outside TSMC resulted in an increase in IC production costs. They have already negotiated product price increases with clients. If TSMC's mature process price hike for next year is confirmed, they will have to further negotiate price increases with clients. Clients will also try to pass on the increased costs to their customers, creating a chain reaction.

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