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TSMC's wafer pricing now $18,000 for a 3nm wafer, increased over 3X in 10 years: Analyst
With each new node, TSMC charged Apple more per wafer, so the price increased from $5,000 for a 28nm wafer with A7 processors ... processes to lower defect density and increase its yields, so ...
Design-Reuse13d
Rethinking The Pursuit of Moore's Law
This effect is expected to be particularly strong for the 28nm generation because limited supply is expected to keep 28nm wafer prices well above $6,000 throughout 2013. Figure 5: A case study of ...
Russian spy infiltrates ASML and NXP to steal technical data necessary to build 28nm-capable fabs
A Russian engineer is accused of leaking confidential technical data from ASML, NXP, TSMC, and GlobalFoundries to Russia, ...
Semiconductor Engineering13y
ST-Ericsson NovaThor This Year, 28nm FDSOI, Soitec Wafers
Big and official FD-SOI news: Soitec has announced that the company is supplying the FD-SOI wafers for ST-Ericsson’s next-generation of NovaThor 8540 smartphone/tablet processors. Starting at the 28nm ...
Design-Reuse2y
2022 a Focus for 12-inch Capacity Expansion, 20% Annual Growth Expected in Mature Process Capacity, Says TrendForce
Of this new capacity, approximately 65% of new 12-inch capacity will be in mature processes (28nm and above) with an annual growth rate of 20%. It is obvious that in 2022, most wafer foundries will ...