US-made chip prices could soar if the rumour that TSMC might charge 'as much as 30%' more for its Arizona chips pans out

The chip industry—as with many others, I'm sure—is, at least to onlookers like myself, in very uncertain waters of late, thanks to the United States' upsy-downy-round-and-roundy 'will he, won't he?' tariff position. The goal is ostensibly to have production shimmy on over to the US, but we're now hearing rumour that even some chip production that is already in the US might have its prices raised.

This latest rumour comes from Economic Daily (via TrendForce), which reports that "market sources...