A facility for manufacturing leading-edge chips costs between $5 billion and $20 billion.
Sources
- The great chip crisis threatens the promise of Moore's Law (technologyreview.com)
- https://www.semiconductors.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Government-Incentives-and-US-Competitiveness-in-Semiconductor-Manufacturing-Sep-2020.pdf (semiconductors.org)
- https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-to-build-a-20-billion-semiconductor (construction-physics.com)
- https://patentpc.com/blog/chip-manufacturing-costs-in-2025-2030-how-much-does-it-cost-to-make-a-3nm-chip (patentpc.com)
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