AI Industry Frontier: Passive components are rising in price again and again, with the sector leader surging 3x over the past two months

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Citrini analyst jukan stated on the X platform that, starting July 1, Murata will raise the ex-factory price of its full range of power inductors by 50%; Taiyo Yuden will uniformly raise the spot price of power inductor models with supply constraints by 150% and increase the price of standard models by 35%.

Note: This round of power inductor price hikes is the latest continuation of the passive component price surge since the end of 2025. Price increases have gradually spread from tantalum capacitors → resistors → MLCCs/ferrite beads to power inductors. Japanese giants (Murata, Taiyo Yuden) have strong pricing power in high-end products, while Taiwanese and mainland Chinese manufacturers (such as Yageo, Walsin Technology, Fenghua, and Sunlord) have followed up with multiple rounds of increases.