Semiconductor Wafer Pricing by Process Node

Name: Semiconductor Wafer Pricing by Process Node
Creator: Silicon Analysts

300mm wafer prices for TSMC, Samsung, Intel from 28nm to 3nm — averages, ranges, NRE/mask costs, plus the historical ASP-by-node curve. Every row cited.

Coverage window: 2026-04-07 → 2026-08-23 (16 rows)
Computed from the backing series at page-render time — never typed by hand.
History honesty: Current-state table; the vintage of each value is its as_of. Time series accrues via the daily ledger and *_history tables, not here.
Cadence: Weekly — wafer pricing refresh runs Mondays 11:30 UTC (multi-source corroborated, $250-grained).
Revision policy: Current-state table updated in place with as_of (vintage) and last_validated (confirmation). Prior values persist in the *_history audit tables and the daily ledger.
Sources (source): Industry Expert Consensus (Est. Discount) (2) · Silicon Analysts estimate — Intel Foundry competitive positioning (not IR-derived) (1) · CSET, Semiwiki (1) · Industry Reports (e.g., EEWORLD) (1) · 3 public sources (1) · 2 public sources (1) · TSMC N7 comp less ~20% Samsung discount (public briefings) (1) · Public analyst comps (Intel 7 ≈ 10nm-class) (1)
Known gaps: Actual foundry contract prices are NDA'd and vary by customer and volume — no public dataset can observe them; our figures are public-source benchmark estimates, rounded to $250. Of the 16 nodes covered, two (TSMC N3 and N5) are directly confirmed by multiple public sources; the other 14 are comparison-derived estimates (for example, Samsung nodes modeled as a discount to the equivalent TSMC node) and carry medium confidence. Nodes now ramping — TSMC N2, Intel 18A — are absent until verifiable public pricing exists; estimated ranges are planned once it does. Mature nodes below 40/45 nm, specialty processes (SiC/GaN), Rapidus, and SMIC's advanced nodes are not covered. Aggregate-band quotes from foundry IR are deliberately excluded from per-node consensus.
Authored 2026-08-14; next review 2026-11-15.
Access: Fully open
API: /api/v1/foundry/wafer-pricing
Machine-readable: /api/v1/catalog/ref-wafer-pricing/contract