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Foundry Wafer Price Comparison
Side-by-side wafer price comparison across TSMC, Samsung, and SMIC at comparable nodes (4nm, 3nm, 2nm).
- Coverage window
- 2023 → 2025 (SMIC) (7 rows)Computed from the backing series at page-render time — never typed by hand.
- History honesty
- Observations recorded as published; no archive backfill flag on this series.
- Cadence
- Event-driven — curated prints land when a dated public source publishes one (per-dataset cadence weekly → annual, see recommended_cadence). The market-data agent sweeps Sundays 02:00 UTC; prints that clear its validation gate (source-excerpt verification included) apply automatically, the rest queue for human review.
- Revision policy
- Points change only through staged updates (market_data_staged_updates) with an audit log; the Pro export carries X-Corrections-Count.
- Sources (source_name)
- Morgan Stanley / TrendForce 2024 (1) · Morgan Stanley / analyst consensus 2024 (1) · EE Times Asia / HWCooling.net Nov 2025 (1) · Silicon Analysts (1) · Deep Research (1) · SemiWiki (1) · Andy Lin blog (granitefirm.com) (1)
- Known gaps
- Known-gaps review pending — the coverage boundaries above are computed and current, but the curator’s qualitative gaps assessment has not been written yet. We state that rather than inventing one.
- Access
- Free API keyAPI:
/api/v1/market-data/wafer-price-comparison - Machine-readable
/api/v1/catalog/wafer-price-comparison/contract