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Someone told me around $30 million for a 14 layer chip in TSMC 5nm but I couldn't get real confirmation.


No one who really knows can say due to NDAs. We just know rough order of magnitude price.

I can see $30 million for 5nm. With material costs approaching $20 to $30 a chip for mobile SoCs, you need quite a high sales price and volume for the economics to work.


14 layers is a suspiciously small number for 5nm.

It will be a big surprise if multiple patterning elimination can reduce the layer count so dramatically.


14 metal layers.




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