UMC, Vanguard (VIS) and other chip foundries are poised to raise prices 5%-20% for mature 8-inch wafer production due to strong AI-related demand for power management chips (PMICs) and as giants TSMC and Samsung reduce 8-inch output to use cleanroom capacity for more advanced chip manufacturing, media report, citing unnamed analysts and market researcher TrendForce. $Taiwan Semiconductor(TSM.US) $United Microelectronics(UMC.US) $GlobalFoundries(GFS.US) $SSNLF #VIS #Samsung

Source: Dan Nystedt