Price rises spread to analogue, discretes and passives

According to eTime, TI will raise prices on July 1st and according to Sina increases could range from 15% to 85% on lines including digital isolators and PMICs.

TI raised prices twice last year, says Sina, and already once, in April, this year.

Sina also reports  that NXP will raise prices from June 1st which will be its second rise this year after a hike in April.

ST’s price increases start on April 26th as notified to customers in March.

ADI has put prices up an average of 15% since February with a 30% rise on mil spec parts.

On April 1st Murata put up prices by 15-35% on multilayer chip ferrite beads, multilayer ferrite power inductors, multilayer RF inductors and multilayer common mode choke coils.

On April 1st onsemi also raised prices. In the company’s May earnings report onsemi execs said they were putting up pieces to get gross margins into the 38-40% range.

Nothing, however, is quite beating memory for price hikes:  DRAM contract prices rose 90-95% in Q1 and are forecast to rise another 58-63% in Q2, and NAND is  up 70-75% this quarter.