The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has not ruled out raising prices due to inflationary pressures driving up operating costs. That came from the company’s CFO Wendell Huang (黃仁昭) in an interview with the BBC Chinese Service on Tuesday, June 9.

TSMC is the world's biggest manufacturer of advanced chips for companies like Nvidia, AMD, and Apple. This means price increases could affect the cost of artificial intelligence infrastructure as well as consumer electronics.

Huang said that TSMC would not suddenly raise prices several-fold, but admitted that inflation is driving up the company’s costs. This echoes TSMC Chairman C. C. Wei’s statement at the recent shareholders meeting, where he said he wanted to raise prices just like the company’s competitors did.

Huang also addressed the recent sell-off of U.S. tech stock and the subsequent impact on Taiwan’s stock market. He said that the AI boom is not a bubble about to burst. Huang added that TSMC’s clients are mostly hyperscale cloud service providers with strong financials, which will allow them to continue investing.