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