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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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[-] filister@lemmy.world 50 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

And NVIDIA will use this as an excuse to hike up their prices by 100+%.

On a serious note, this will progressively come down in price as time passes, plus not everyone needs to use 2nm cutting edge technology. Plus transition to 2nm will also increase the density, so comparing wafer prices without acknowledging the increased density is not giving you the whole picture.

Plus DRAM scaling is becoming cumbersome and a lot more components cannot scale to 2nm, so 2nm is mostly a marketing term, and there are a lot of challenges that make this tech so expensive and difficult to design and produce.

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