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title: "Samsung raises foundry prices up to 15% as AI demand fills capacity"
url: https://www.parallelquant.com/posts/samsung-raises-foundry-prices-up-to-15-as-ai-demand-fills-capacity-04a880
source_name: "Tom's Hardware"
source_url: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/samsung-raises-advanced-foundry-prices-by-up-to-15-percent-as-ai-demand-fills-its-4nm-lines
published: 2026-08-19T16:15:53.000Z
topics: ["chips"]
publisher: "Parallel Quant"
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# Samsung raises foundry prices up to 15% as AI demand fills capacity

*2026-08-19 · Source: [Tom's Hardware](https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/samsung-raises-advanced-foundry-prices-by-up-to-15-percent-as-ai-demand-fills-its-4nm-lines)*

Samsung reportedly raised prices on new orders across its 4nm, 5nm, and 8nm foundry processes in July, with increases of up to 15%. Chinese customers reportedly accepted the largest hikes.

**Why it matters:** This is a logic-chip counterpart to the DRAM shortage already pushing memory prices up as much as tenfold — AI demand is now squeezing capacity and pricing across multiple layers of the chip supply chain, not just memory, which will likely flow through to broader hardware costs.

**Topics:** chips

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