Because all of their competitors are also raising their prices. Why would companies reduce prices and profits when the demand exists even with higher costs? Sa

Because all of their competitors are also raising their prices. Why would companies reduce prices and profits when the demand exists even with higher costs? Samsung, which is the largest IC manufacturer, recently increased prices: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-foundry-to-hike-wafer-production-prices https://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-foundry-to-hike-wa... If you look at prices for the stuff a lot of wafer capacity is going towards, particularly Flash and RAM, you'll see that the prices have gone up 20%+ over the last year. I think people like to pick out TSMC because of the politics surrounding Taiwan and China, and maybe because a lot of companies use TSMC for their IC production and like to complain. People don't notice as much when other ICs like flash, ram, micros, etc are slowly increased in price.