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Gallium Price — 10-Day Trend Behind the Chip Demand
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The Two Compounds That Actually Consume Gallium
Say "gallium semiconductor" and most people picture one thing. In reality there are two distinct compounds doing the work, and they're not interchangeable. Gallium arsenide (GaAs) pairs gallium with arsenic and has spent decades inside high-frequency RF chips, some LED technology, and select solar cells. Gallium nitride (GaN) pairs it with nitrogen instead, and it's the newer story — the material behind the compact fast-charger bricks that shrank overnight a few years ago, and increasingly a serious option in power electronics and 5G radio hardware. Neither compound has anything to do with a coin or a bar; gallium has no retail bullion market at all, and both GaAs and GaN ultimately trace back to gallium recovered as a byproduct of bauxite and zinc ore processing, not a dedicated gallium mine.
Today's gallium reference rate works out to:
- Per gram: ₹22.98
- Per 10 grams: ₹229.83
- Per 100 grams: ₹2,298.26
- Per kilogram: ₹22,982.64
Every wafer of GaAs or GaN starts as raw gallium purchased at some version of that rate, refined further, then grown into a compound crystal before it ever becomes a chip.
Gallium Price by Weight
Today's Gallium rate is Twenty Three Rupees per gram. At this rate, 10 grams of Gallium costs Two Hundred and Thirty Rupees.
| Unit | Weight | Price (INR) | Price in Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Gram | 1.0000 g | ₹22.98 | Twenty Three Rupees |
| 8 Grams | 8.0000 g | ₹183.86 | One Hundred and Eighty Four Rupees |
| 10 Grams | 10.0000 g | ₹229.83 | Two Hundred and Thirty Rupees |
| 100 Grams | 100.0000 g | ₹2,298.26 | Two Thousand Two Hundred and Ninety Eight Rupees |
| 1 Kilogram | 1,000.0000 g | ₹22,982.64 | Twenty Two Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighty Three Rupees |
| 1 Ounce (oz) | 28.3495 g | ₹651.55 | Six Hundred and Fifty Two Rupees |
| 1 Troy Ounce | 31.1035 g | ₹714.84 | Seven Hundred and Fifteen Rupees |
| 1 Metric Ton | 1,000,000.0000 g | ₹22,982,641.00 | Two Crore Twenty Nine Lakh Eighty Two Thousand Six Hundred and Forty One Rupees |
GaAs, GaN, and Silicon — Where Each One Actually Wins
Silicon still runs the vast majority of the semiconductor world, and for a simple reason: the manufacturing base behind it is enormous, mature, and cheap in a way neither GaAs nor GaN can match. Gallium's two compounds don't compete with silicon on cost. They compete on specific performance traits silicon can't deliver at all, or can't deliver efficiently — and that's precisely where each earns its place.
| Material | Typical Application | Key Advantage | Trade-off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Silicon (Si) | General-purpose logic, everyday consumer electronics | Mature, extremely cheap, well-understood manufacturing | Weaker at very high frequency or high voltage |
| Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) | Smartphone RF front-ends, high-frequency chips, some LEDs and solar cells | Higher electron mobility than silicon; strong at high frequency | Costlier wafers, more fragile than silicon |
| Gallium Nitride (GaN) | Fast phone/laptop chargers, 5G RF power amplifiers, power electronics | Higher breakdown voltage and power density; switches faster | Newer, costlier than silicon, manufacturing ecosystem still maturing |
Why a phone charger and a 5G radio can both run on GaN
That seems like an odd pair of applications to share one material, but the underlying reason is the same in both cases: GaN switches power on and off faster than silicon, wastes less of it as heat while doing so, and tolerates a higher voltage before it breaks down. A fast charger uses that to shrink the transformer inside the brick. A 5G radio uses the same properties to run its power amplifier hotter and harder without the efficiency losses silicon would rack up. GaAs, for its part, isn't trying to solve either of those problems — its strength has always been raw high-frequency signal handling, which is why it's stayed the default for a lot of smartphone RF work even as GaN has taken over the charger sitting next to that same phone.
Gallium Price — Last 10 Days
The most recent Gallium price on record (2026-09-17) is Twenty Three Rupees per gram. This is up by Less than One Rupees from the previous day's rate of ₹22.94.
| Date | Price (INR/g) | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-17 | ₹22.98 | +0.05 |
| 2026-09-16 | ₹22.94 | +0.01 |
| 2026-09-15 | ₹22.93 | +0.03 |
| 2026-09-14 | ₹22.90 | -0.16 |
| 2026-09-13 | ₹23.06 | +0.00 |
| 2026-09-12 | ₹23.06 | +0.01 |
| 2026-09-11 | ₹23.04 | -0.01 |
| 2026-09-10 | ₹23.06 | +0.12 |
| 2026-09-09 | ₹22.94 | +0.09 |
| 2026-09-08 | ₹22.85 | — |
What This Chip Story Means for Gallium's Longer-Term Picture
There's no coin, bar, or jewellery-counter way to hold gallium the way there is with gold or silver, so anyone thinking about exposure to this story is really thinking about exposure to the companies that make GaAs and GaN chips, or the materials suppliers behind them — not the raw metal itself. That's a genuinely different kind of investment conversation than the one this site has for precious metals, and it's worth being upfront about rather than glossing over.
On demand, the honest framing is qualitative rather than a specific figure: GaN adoption in chargers and power electronics has visibly grown in recent years, and 5G buildout continues to lean on both GaAs and GaN RF hardware, which could keep supporting demand for the gallium behind them. Whether that translates into higher prices from here isn't something this page will predict — gallium's price also answers to byproduct supply economics and to China's refining and export-policy position, covered in more depth elsewhere on this site. For exact day-by-day figures rather than this page's narrative framing, the site's gallium price history page is the better source.
GaAs and GaN Semiconductors — FAQs
Both are compound semiconductors built around gallium, but paired with a different element — arsenic in GaAs, nitrogen in GaN — and that pairing changes how each material behaves electrically. GaAs is the older, more established of the two, with decades of use in high-frequency radio-frequency chips and optoelectronics. GaN is the newer arrival, and its particular strength is handling higher voltages and switching faster than either GaAs or plain silicon, which is why it has found a home in power electronics rather than just RF work.
GaN's breakdown field — the voltage at which a material stops insulating and starts conducting uncontrollably — runs roughly ten times higher than silicon's by common industry comparisons, and GaN devices typically pack several times the power density of an equivalent GaAs part into the same footprint. That combination is exactly why GaN shows up in compact fast-charger bricks and in power electronics designs where a silicon or GaAs equivalent would need to be physically larger.
Not wholesale, and this page won't claim otherwise. Silicon's manufacturing base is enormous, decades-mature, and dramatically cheaper per chip, which keeps it the default for most everyday electronics. GaN is expected to keep gaining ground specifically in the higher-voltage, higher-frequency niches — fast chargers, RF power amplifiers, certain power-conversion designs — where its physical advantages are worth the extra manufacturing cost, rather than displacing silicon everywhere at once.
5G networks push RF power amplifiers to run at higher frequencies and higher power levels than earlier mobile generations required, and that is squarely GaN's strength — it handles both more efficiently than silicon-based alternatives. GaAs still plays a role in RF front-end components too, so 5G hardware isn't a GaN-only story, but GaN's frequency and power handling are why it gets singled out in 5G infrastructure and device coverage.
It's one of the more direct demand links gallium has. Because so much of gallium's modern consumption goes into these two compound semiconductors rather than a wide spread of unrelated industries, today's reference rate of ₹22.98 per gram, as of September 17, 2026, reflects chip and power-electronics demand more closely than a metal with a broader industrial customer base would.
