Silicon Wafer Price by Node (TSMC 300mm)

Name: Silicon Wafer Price by Node (TSMC 300mm)
Creator: Silicon Analysts

Silicon wafer prices by node: 300mm TSMC wafers across 15 nodes, 65nm to A16 — 15 years of flat costs, then a ~133% structural break driven by EUV economics and pricing power.

Coverage window: 90nm (2004) → A16 (2026+) (15 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): Tom's Hardware / Morgan Stanley (2) · CSET model / HWCooling.net (1) · Industry consensus / Silicon Analysts (1) · CSET model / Tom's Hardware (DigiTimes) (1) · IBS historical node data / TechInsights estimates (1) · VLSI Research historical estimates / academic literature (1) · IBS / SemiWiki estimates 2014 (1) · Industry consensus 2018 (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 key
API: /api/v1/market-data/wafer-price-tsmc
Machine-readable: /api/v1/catalog/wafer-price-tsmc/contract