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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)

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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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[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago

Afaik 2nm is the theoretical limit for current transistor tech so this sort of end-game for this type of tech.

[-] terminhell@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I didn't think the ~5nm limit could be broke due to quantum tunneling.

[-] crazyminner@lemmy.ml 18 points 11 months ago

The nm number is just the smallest part on the waffer. It's not actually the transistor.

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