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Firm predicts it will cost $28 billion to build a 2nm fab and $30,000 per wafer, a 50 percent increase in chipmaking costs as complexity rises (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 11 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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Firm predicts it will cost $28 billion to build a 2nm fab and $30,000 per wafer, a 50 percent increase in chipmaking costs as complexity rises::As wafer fab tools are getting more expensive, so do fabs and, ultimately, chips. A new report claims that

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[–] Eheran 8 points 11 months ago

50 % higher costs per wafer. And how much per computing power? Same power takes less space with the smaller process after all.

[–] Gekoloniseerd 4 points 11 months ago

What is this headline?

[–] oDDmON 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This will significantly increase production costs per wafer and per chip, which will inevitably affect companies that use leading-edge fabrication technologies, such as Apple, which is currently the only company that mass produces processors for smartphones and PCs using TSMC's latest N3B (3nm-class fabrication process).

TL;DR? Apple stuff to get more expensive.