After global chip maker SUMCO announced that it will raise the price of its 12-inch silicon wafers this year, global wafer in China Taiwan will also follow up. This will result in a decrease of CPU, GPU, DRAM and flash memory Production costs and prices have risen, but demand is still greater than supply driven by the global mining boom.
In November last year, Korean media "ETNEWS" reported that Japanese firm SUMCO will raise its price of 12-inch silicon wafers by 20% in 2018 and will raise prices again in 2019. Executive Hushimoto Mayuki acknowledged the news to the media. SUMCO is responsible for about 60% of the world's silicon wafer supply.
The main reason for the rising price of silicon wafers is the shortage of 12-inch 300-mm silicon wafers, which are mainly used to manufacture processors, graphics cards and memory (RAM). SUMCO estimates that by 2020, global wafer demand will grow to 6.6 million tablets per month.
SUMCO reported its full-year 2017 results on the 6th. As the demand for silicon wafers was higher than supply and the price of 12-inch silicon wafers rose, the consolidated net sales reached 260.627 billion yen, up 23.3% from the same period of last year. The combined business Revenues of 42.085 billion yen, a substantial increase of 199.6%.
Xu Xiulan, chairman of Taiwanese manufacturer UniversalWorld, told shareholders this week that the company will raise its silicon wafer price by 20% this year.
However, the rise in silicon wafer prices may be bad news for players who like to assemble their own computers because the price of GPU has risen a lot due to the mining demand for cryptocurrencies, but the price is expected to continue rising in the current situation .
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