# Chip costs to rise five times from protectionism/TSMC relocation

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-02-18
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Most Successful Crypto Miner Failure, Akash Super Mini - Greg Osuri Interview CEO of Overclock Labs (Action Crypto)
- **Watch at:** 00:27:19 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwJ4-Q27CRM&t=1639s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2023-02-18-chip-costs-to-rise-five-times-from-protectionism-t-6m5f/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Chip costs to rise five times from protectionism/TSMC relocation," Most Successful Crypto Miner Failure, Akash Super Mini - Greg Osuri Interview CEO of Overclock Labs (Action Crypto), 18 Feb 2023, 00:27:19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwJ4-Q27CRM&t=1639s

## Quote — verbatim

> Even the CEO of TSMC in their latest quarterly results came out and said this is going to increase the chip cost by five times. So all our chips are going to increase in prices, especially GPUs.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Argues reverse-globalization (US bans on Americans working in Chinese semis, TSMC moving fabs to the US) makes chip inflation structural; "chip costs are going to only get expensive."