Thread 720016110

Are you ready for even more expensive consoles, CPUs, & GPUs?
https://www.trendforce.com/news/2025/09/05/news-tsmc-to-implement-a-significant-price-hike/

>>720016110 (OP)
>MFW I saw this coming with the inflation and tariff shit and built a new PC on the spot
Sucks to be you I guess

I just won't buy it if I think its a waste of money, I'm white.

how do we blame blumf for this one bros

>>720016110 (OP)
5090 already costs 2500-2700 usd dollarydos, so who cares if it already unbuyable for 95% goymers

>>720016837
This post is funny, nobody mentioned Trump. Hit dogs holler.

Im not concerned since nothing worth upgrading for will come out any time soon.
Im more concerned about the fuckload of AI centers being built that will cause power prices to skyrocket because the cost will be pushed on to everyone and not just them.

>>720016110 (OP)
Yep, this is why I bought my 5090 FE from Best Buy last month; in preparation for the next 3 or however many years of absurdly high GPU prices. This and my 9800x3d should keep me good for a good 5 or so years.

>>720016110 (OP)
didnt we already build a new chip factory in America thats literally better than the one in Taiwan?

>>720017043
?

>>720017421
That's literally one of the reasons stated in the article for the price hike
TSMC needs to recoup that cost

How long until this hits consumers?

>>720017440
nobody mentioned trump
and yet here you are inserting trump into the conversation.
because he is your whole personality i guess.

>>720016110 (OP)
Guess this means going Team Red is even more necessary for me in the future.

They're destroying the economy on purpose?

you ready for RTX Hair™?

>>720018312
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFWr44ZIEZc
THEY ALREADY FUCKING DID THIS FUCK NVIDIA

god damnit do I buy the 5070 ti now or keep WAITing? I want to be ready for gemini tier local models but I figure that's running on a super computer anyway

>>720016837
TSMC needs more money to build a factory in USA. It started years ago, not sure by drumpf or bydone, not like it matters anyway.

>>720016110 (OP)
You voted for this

>Chinese market account for nearly half of ASML's revenue, which are starting to dry up since they can't sell anything anymore
>ASML try to recoup losses by hiking the price of their equipments to existing customers, biggest one of which is TSMC
>TSMC are now paying the newer price as they are forced to build their plants in various places for redundancy
Previous ASML's machines used by most people before 2023 were low-NA which cost around $150 million each, while the newest high-NA one cost $380 million each. TSMC might have to buy the high-NA one because buying an older one that could be obsolete soon doesn't make sense.

>>720018312
I think the weird part is that they're trying to pass this off as some new unique tech that changes the game for hair rendering, as if games haven't been doing it for years.
Shit, we can go all the way back to TressFX if we want, that shit's over a decade old.

>>720017586
Please respond

Oh no, all those derivative AAA UE5 games that run at 45FPS on a NASA super computer.
How will I live.

I'm not upgrading my rig until AAA is dead

>>720018501
probably gonna pick up the 5070ti myself, the Supers will be super scalped anyway
the jump to the 5080 isn't worth the 500 dollars for 15%, if you're jumping to the 80 might as well make the jump to the 90

so 70ti for me

>>720017663
Rent free

>PS6, PS6 handheld, and next Xbox will be unaffordable along with gaming PCs
>Switch 2 and Steam Deck 2 will be the cheapest handhelds on the market
>AAA slop dies
Nintendo and Valve won

>>720021502
Nintendo and Valve are AAA slop

>>720021681
Cope, you lost

>>720021724
Facts don't care about your feelings

>>720016110 (OP)
There's literally no reason to upgrade from 5700X3D.
And I have a 9070 XT so I'm good for 10 years.

No, devs just need to stop using new GPU hardware. We have already passed the point where making better graphics will make more money compared to the increased budget and how much of the market you're cutting off who can't afford new hardware. There is literally no fucking reason to keep pushing graphics unless Nvidia is paying you.

We won't see a Switch 3 or Steam Deck 3 for at least 20 years.

>>720022035
hardware creep is more for increasingly inefficient jeetcoding and bloat than actual visual advancement now

should I upgrade my 4070 (non super, non TI)?

>>720018312
looks like shit

https://www.trendforce.com/news/2025/09/05/news-tsmc-to-implement-a-significant-price-hike/

good news, entire world gets to pay for tsmc american foundry "investments"

>starting in 2026, TSMC plans to raise prices by 5-10% for advanced nodes below 5nm, including the 2nm process scheduled for mass production by late 2025. Currently, 3nm wafers are priced at around USD 20,000 each, while 2nm wafers are expected to cost at least 50% more—exceeding USD 30,000 per wafer—with further increases possible
>The driving forces behind this pricing shift are TSMC’s escalating manufacturing expenses, particularly its massive investments in Arizona
>TSMC has invested more than USD 65 billion into its Arizona fabs, where construction and operational expenses are proving a major burden

>>720023353
Can't wait for china to scoop them over

Faster. Faster!
Amerimuttistan has to die within my lifetime.

>>720023353
This whole thing has been such a clusterfuck, they're gonna end up selling it off eventually.

>>720025492
Trump will just nationalize it.

>>720025526
lol good luck getting any foreign company to invest in america ever again after that

>>720021795
Feelings don't care about facts either. Looks like we have a stalemate here.

>>720016837
I'm sure blamp has someone in the goldstein list that could've prevented this but since he didn't release it we must suffer

guess I'm waiting for the 70xx series

>>720018681
The AZ fab is complete, open, and operational, has been for a long time now. There is an entire little town around it full of housing.

>>720027923
No its not. They still have to build some facilities around, they arent part of a "fab" but needed for supplying and servicing it, there is no local american companies that can do it, so they are moving people and materials from asia.

>>720030458
Very funny fanfic. They began running test wafers over a year ago.

>>720030632
>test wafers

>>720016238
bastard and motherfucker

>>720027440
underrated post