SMIC Raises Foundry Prices as Utilization Hits 93.7% and Quarterly Revenue Tops $3B for the First Time
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China's largest foundry SMIC raised prices on August 14, 2026 with utilization at 93.7% and quarterly revenue exceeding $3 billion for the first time. A price increase at that utilization level is a capacity-constraint signal on the domestic Chinese chip supply that Chinese AI labs depend on — and it lands in the same week DeepSeek raised API prices citing resource allocation. Single-aggregator sourcing, so treat the specific figures as provisional pending SMIC's filed results.