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The
move, expected to be applied from the second half of this year,
is part of an industry-wide push to raise prices to cover rising
materials and logistics costs, Bloomberg said, citing people
familiar with the matter.
Contract-based chip prices are likely to rise around 15% to 20%,
depending upon the level of sophistication, with chips produced
on legacy nodes likely to face bigger hikes, Bloomberg said,
adding Samsung had completed negotiations with some clients
while still in discussions with others.
Samsung Electronics declined to comment.
The company is the world's second-largest chip contract
manufacturer, after Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC).
TSMC has forecast an up to 37% jump in current-quarter sales,
saying it expects chip capacity to remain very tight this year
amid a global chip crunch that has kept order books full and
allowed chipmakers to charge premium prices.
Samsung said in an earnings call in late April that major
customers' demand for its chip contract manufacturing was
greater than its available capacity, and it expected the supply
shortage to continue.
(Reporting by Joyce Lee and Sayantani Ghosh; Editing by Mark
Potter)
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