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A | Exxon Mobil is buying Pioneer Natural Resources in an all-stock deal valued at $59.5 billion, its largest buyout since acquiring Mobil two decades ago, creating a colossal fracking operator in West Texas. Including debt, Exxon is committing about $64.5 billion to the acquisition, leaving no doubt of the Texas energy company's commitment to fossil fuels as energy prices surge. Pioneer shareholders will receive 2.32 shares of Exxon for each Pioneer share they own.“I think fossil fuels, as the world looks to transition and find lower sources of affordable energy with lower emissions, fossil fuels oil and gas are going to continue to play a role over time,” Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods said during an interview with CNBC. “ That may diminish with time. The rate of that is, I think, not very clear at this stage. But it will be around for a long time.” Woods explained that Exxon and Pioneer will be able to use their combined capabilities to drive down emissions and produce lower carbon intensity oil and gas. Exxon purchased XTO Energy in 2009 for approximately $36 billion. In the late 1990s, the merger between Exxon and Mobil was valued around $80 billion.The deal with Pioneer Natural vastly expands Exxon's presence in the Permian basin, a massive oilfield that straddles the border between Texas and New Mexico. Drilling the Permian accounted for 18% of all U.S. natural gas production last year, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.Pioneer's more than 850,000 net acres in the Midland Basin will be combined with Exxon’s 570,000 net acres in the Delaware and Midland Basin, nearly contiguous fields that will allow the combined company to trim costs. That is a big driver of the deal. Natural gas rigs in operation have declined over 26% in the U.S. since the start of the year, according to government data, largely due to the rising costs for drilling materials and labor over the past two years. “Their tier-one acreage is highly contiguous, allowing for greater opportunities to deploy our technologies, delivering operating and capital efficiency as well as significantly increasing production,” Woods said of Pioneer in a prepared statement. The company will have an estimated 16 billion barrels of oil equivalent in the Permian.Once the deal closes, Exxon Permian production volume will more than double to 1.3 million barrels of oil equivalent per day, based on 2023 volumes. It's expected to climb to about 2 million barrels of oil equivalent per day in 2027. “The combination of ExxonMobil and Pioneer creates a diversified energy company with the largest footprint of high-return wells in the Permian Basin,” Pioneer CEO Scott Sheffield said in a prepared statement. Citi's Alastair Syme wrote that the transaction could provide multiple benefits to Exxon. “Across the industry, the logic of consolidation in the highly fragmented Permian shale remains compelling with significant gains to be achieved from economies of scale by minimizing facilities spend, optimizing drilling and reducing" general spending, Syme wrote. Exxon is flush with cash. The company posted unprecedented profits last year of $55.7 billion, breezing past its previous record of $45.22 billion in 2008 when oil prices hit record highs.Exxon Mobil Corp. has been using some of that cash on acquisitions. In July the company announced that it was buying pipeline operator Denbury in an all-stock deal valued at $4.9 billion.Pioneer Natural has been making similar maneuvers. In 2020 the company said it was buying Parsley Energy in an all-stock deal valued at approximately $4.5 billion. It then purchased DoublePoint Energy in a cash-and-stock deal worth about $6.4 billion in 2021.The boards of both companies have approved the transaction, which is expected to close in the first half of next year. It still needs approval from Pioneer shareholders. Shares of Exxon fell more than 4% in Wednesday morning trading.。 台积电正就2027年提价事宜与客户展开谈判,涨幅最高可达10%,以应对持续攀升的制造成本。此举将直接影响英伟达、苹果等全球主要科技企业的芯片采购成本。 7月21日,据日经亚洲援引知情人士消息,台积电已于6月启动与客户的价格谈判,并于7月完成基础价格调整方案,涨幅区间为5%至10%,具体幅度因客户及产品类型而异。新定价将于2027年初正式生效,覆盖先进制程与成熟制程半导体。 台积电将提价时间推迟至2027年,旨在给客户留出充足的调整窗口。台积电在声明中表示:"我们的定价策略是战略性的,而非机会主义的。

B | 我们将继续与客户密切合作,向他们展示我们的价值。" 成本压力驱动提价 台积电此次提价的核心驱动力在于生产成本的全面上涨。材料、设备及电力等制造环节的多项投入成本持续攀升,令这家全球最大晶圆代工商承受显著压力。

C | 本月,台积电上调了2026年资本支出预测,理由是人工智能需求旺盛以及扩产成本不断增加——尤其是其在亚利桑那州推进的总额高达2650亿美元的扩产计划。中东冲突引发的全球供应链扰动,以及AI产业的爆发式需求,进一步推高了台积电的运营成本。 台积电首席执行官魏哲家在7月公布好于预期的季度业绩后对分析师表示:"我们不会突然涨价。我们赚取的是我们的价值,我们确保利润和毛利率足以支撑长期持续扩张,这对客户和台积电都有利,这是我们的经营理念。" 客户需求殷切,供给仍显紧张 台积电是英伟达、苹果、Alphabet、亚马逊等全球众多顶级科技企业的核心代工伙伴。与内存芯片行业价格大幅波动的特点不同,台积电长期以来坚持与客户建立穿越周期的长期合作关系。 然而,AI需求的持续爆发正在重塑这一格局。

D | 英伟达等客户已敦促台积电加快扩产步伐,以缓解AI加速器及数据中心相关组件的供应瓶颈。

E | 台积电刚刚公布了超预期的第二季度营收与利润,并上调了全年增长预测,但公司仍面临无法完全满足客户订单的挑战。 涨价横跨先进与成熟制程,多领域客户受冲击 此次提价若落地,将对台积电下游客户的成本结构产生直接影响。5%至10%的涨幅覆盖先进与成熟制程两大产品线,意味着从高端AI芯片到消费电子及汽车芯片的广泛产品均将受到波及。 台积电选择将新定价推迟至2027年生效,为客户提供了缓冲期,有助于缓和谈判摩擦。

F | 台积电方面强调,公司不就定价细节置评,但重申定价策略以战略考量为导向。
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