"Big Trouble At 3nm
Costs of developing a complex chip could run as high as $1.5B, while power/performance benefits are likely to decrease.
... Design costs are also a problem. Generally, IC design costs have jumped from $51.3 million for a 28nm planar device to $297.8 million for a 7nm chip and $542.2 million for 5nm, according to IBS. But at 3nm, IC design costs range from a staggering $500 million to $1.5 billion, according to IBS. The $1.5 billion figure involves a complex GPU at Nvidia ...
Plus, the manufacturing costs are enormous. “3nm will cost $4 billion to $5 billion in process development, and the fab cost for 40,000 wafers per month will be $15 billion to $20 billion,” IBS’ Jones said... "
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