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TSMC's wafer pricing now $18,000 for a 3nm wafer

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Apple 's A-series smartphone processors have evolved significantly from the A7 ( 28 nm) to the A18 Pro ( 3 nm), gaining more cores, transistors, and features.

With each new node, TSMC charged Apple more per wafer, so the price increased from $ 5,000 for a 28 nm wafer with A7 processors to $ 18,000 per 3nm -class wafer for A17 and A18 -series processors.

Anton Shilov is a contributing writer at Tom’s Hardware . Over the past couple of decades , he has covered everything from CPUs and GPUs to supercomputers and from modern process technologies and latest fab tools to high-tech industry trends..

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