在Fudzilla看的。

Costs threaten profits 
 

Today, TSMC announced that they may have to increase their pricing, due to costs that threaten their profits. Apparently, building facilities for making the latest chips is becoming more and more costly, and oil pricing and inflation definitely aren't helping.

The price-affected processors will mostly be higher-end chips, but there’s no mention on specific price increases. Still, new emerging markets and demands for desktop and mobile processors might make 2008 a great year for TSMC, so this might prove to be just a scare.

Analysts claim that 18-inch wafer factory costs $10 billion, or even more, to build, which is triple the cash you’d have to invest to make a current 12-inch wafer fab.

It is highly likely that this price increase will hit both Nvidia and ATI.

我英语不是很好，大体上说什么：要建工厂、石油价格使得成本增加，还说要建立18英寸晶圆工厂，需要100亿美元，甚至更多，投资规模相当于现在12英寸晶圆工厂的三倍。

因此很有可能会影响到ATI跟NVIDIA，忽忽，要涨价啊，看好什么抓紧买那。