Chips are not getting cheaper.

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

  • Eheran@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    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.

  • oDDmON@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    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.