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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    11 months ago

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