{"id":1028867,"date":"2026-08-15T08:12:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T02:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028867"},"modified":"2026-08-15T08:16:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T02:46:38","slug":"chinese-chipmaker-smic-increases-prices-on-strong-ai-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/15\/chinese-chipmaker-smic-increases-prices-on-strong-ai-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese chipmaker SMIC increases prices on strong AI demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s top foundry, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp, said on Friday \u200bthat AI-related demand would continue to underpin \u200borders for its production, and that it had raised prices for its \u200bmost sought-after capacity. <\/p>\n<p>Co-CEO Zhao Haijun said on an earnings call that SMIC raised prices following negotiations with customers in the first quarter, and that it would charge more for wafers processed in the third quarter. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe we&#8217;ve reached top-tier \u200cindustry standards in \u2060these areas,&#8221; \u2060Zhao said. &#8220;Since there&#8217;s still a big gap between industry-leading wafer prices and SMIC&#8217;s current prices, we need to negotiate with \u200bcustomers for fairer pricing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s top foundry, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp, said on Friday \u200bthat AI-related demand would continue to underpin \u200borders for its production, and that it had raised prices for its \u200bmost sought-after capacity. Co-CEO Zhao Haijun said on an earnings call that SMIC raised prices following negotiations with customers in the first quarter, and that it would charge more for wafers processed in the third quarter. &#8220;We believe we&#8217;ve reached top-tier \u200cindustry standards in \u2060these areas,&#8221; \u2060Zhao said. &#8220;Since there&#8217;s still a big gap between industry-leading wafer prices and SMIC&#8217;s current prices, we need to negotiate with \u200bcustomers for fairer pricing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028892,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028867\/revisions\/1028892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}