Laptops and PC markets have seen increases in recent years.
A few years ago a smartphone and other factors were threatened with thwarting PC growth but they returned with mode.
However, it seems that consumers must spend more to buy a new laptop and PC in 2022.
This is why the manufacturing fees are set to ride the Uptaiwan-based TSMC semiconductor has announced that the cost of making for the chip used in the PC, the laptop is set to rise.
What this means is that the hardware used in the PC will be more expensive, TSMC said that the 7NM and 5NM manufacturing process will see an increase of around 10-20% in a cost, according to a report by digitimes.
TSMC is a major supplier for people like AMD, Intel, Nvidia – a large company behind the CPU and GPU found on personal computers.
Why is the cost expected to rise? Some factors are behind the expected price increase.
Material costs are set to rise while the pandemic has caused a shortage of several fronts.
The report said that TSMC expects logistics and shipping costs also rise in 2022.
Which companies are most affected? AMD, Nvidia and Intel.
Reports by Digitimes revealed that the ZEN 2 and ZEN 3 AMD processors will cost more while the 6000 GPU series will also be more expensive.
Similarly, the next NVIDIA GPU Gen GPU series will also be more expensive to produce.
The price of the GPU has risen for a while now and it looks like there is no stop.
Intel also depends on TSMC quite a lot so that the US-based technology giant is expected to be affected.
What does it mean for consumers? With production costs up, companies such as Intel, AMD, Nvidia is likely to forward it to the laptop brand and that means consumers must pay more.
Digitimes reports expect a 20% increase in hardware costs, which means consumers may have to be more for new laptops or desktops than they did in 2021.