Samsung Foundry increases the prices of its 4, 5 and 8 nanometer nodes by up to 15%

They already warned us that 2026 was not going to be a better year than 2025 in terms of memory pricing and availabilityit is visible. Memory manufacturers cannot cope with the current demand for this type of component for servers, data centers and even for consumers. Taking advantage of this rebound in demand, Samsung Foundry will take the opportunity to increase prices in several of its manufacturing nodes.

Price hikes on 4nm, 5nm and 8nm nodes

As we read in Reuters, Samsung increased the price of its 4nm node by 10-15% for customers in China and the United States, while customers in Taiwan only saw a rise of between 5 and 10%. for your 5nm SF5 node, the increase also remained between 10 and 15%. Even your oldest node 8nm SF8 rose up to 10% driven by NVIDIA orders for RTX 3060 GPU, that has returned after two generations.

The publication has not specified whether there are price increases for the Samsung’s most advanced nodes, 2 and 3 nanometers. It seems that these prices are already high enough to go restoring profitability to Samsung’s foundry business. According to these numbers, taking advantage of the current situation, it may be Samsung Foundry to be profitable again by 2027after 3 years in a row in negative numbers.

Samsung has only 7% market share compared to TSMC’s 70%

Samsung only has a 7% of the foundry market, clearly dominated by TSMC with 70%. The improvement in performance in the most advanced nodes is making the Korean giant recover its investment, even the Customers in China can pay more for these types of smaller nodes given the difficulty of ensuring chip manufacturing with advanced nodes.