In recent years, affected by factors such as the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, epidemic prevention and control, and inflation, the profitability of most companies has been severely squeezed. In order to absorb the pressure of rising costs and resist external risks, companies have successively issued price increase notices.

Roma: Officially increase prices from October 1

Rohm, a major Japanese IDM manufacturer, previously issued a notice that it will officially increase the prices of new and old products from October 1, 2022.

The notice shows that due to the continuous increase in the cost structure of raw materials, in order to meet the follow-up investment plan, production capacity deployment, and increasing demand of ROHM, ROHM decided to increase the quotations of new and used products. The price change will be for new orders after October 1st and orders in existing shipments, with an increase of 10%, and even some individual product lines have different quotation increases.

As a major power semiconductor IDM manufacturer in Japan, ROHM was founded in 1958. Its products cover many fields, including IC, discrete components, optical components, passive components, modules, semiconductor application products and medical equipment. In the world electronics industry, many of ROHM's high-quality products have been approved and praised by the market, and it has become the leading company in system IC and the latest semiconductor technology. In recent years, ROHM's business focus has been tilted towards in-vehicle applications.
TE Connectivity: Price increase from October 8

TE Connectivity a global leader in connection and sensing, issued a letter of price increase, saying that the entire market is still encountering significant changes and challenges that are extremely rare in recent years. These market changes have caused a sharp rise in the cost of ERNI products. In order to digest the increase It is decided to implement price adjustments for ENRI products for ENRI customers in Asia (excluding Japan and South Korea) from October 8, and prices will generally increase by at least 12%.

TE Connectivity is an international manufacturer of connectors. The tight supply and demand of raw materials with weather vane, rising prices and serious inflation are problems facing the world. At present, there are still many uncertainties in the external environment, so it is impossible to determine when this wave of raw material price hikes will continue. At present, the annual output of TE Connectivity’s connecting parts is as high as 120 billion, and the number of patents it has (including applications) reaches 14,000. Behind the rise of raw materials, there is a conspiracy of the United States to plunder and squeeze the world. The United States controls the rise of raw materials, increases the production cost of emerging countries, and reduces the production profits of these countries.

Intel: Q4 will increase prices across the board.

Recently, INTEL has issued a notice that it will increase the price of all motherboard chipsets by about 10-20% from Q4, and it will also involve Intel motherboard chipsets.

In July this year, after Intel released its financial report for the second quarter of 2022, it said that its revenue and earnings per share failed to reach the double-digit target, and the revenue of its customer computing and data center departments all showed a huge decline. Although the company reiterated that they are trying to do better, and launched a very good set of products in the second half of 2022, it will raise the price of most components (including CPU) of Chipzilla in the fourth quarter of this year.

In fact, the talk about Intel's price increase has been discussed for several months. Previous reports said that Intel would increase the price of CPU and other components by 20%. The list of affected products includes the list of CPU and other components used in the client computing server, such as Wi-Fi connection controller.

Source：Semiconductor industry circle