Insight: Most Wafer Production Costs Fell in 2024 and are Expected to Continue to Drop in 2025
Explore TechInsights' SME model for wafer production costs—covering frontend steps to sawing/dicing for hundred of processes from IDMs and foundries.
TechInsights’ Semiconductor Manufacturing Economics (SME) has wafer production costs for hundreds of specific processes at fabs around the world. Our team analysed wafer costs over time for a selection of companies using SME data. Data was for both Discrete/Power semiconductors and ICs. Although SME includes frontend and backend costs, this analysis focused on the frontend costs up until sawing/dicing into individual dies. IDMs and Foundries included in the analysis: Analog Devices, Bosch, GlobalFoundries, Infineon, Intel, Microchip, Micron, Nexperia, NXP, onsemi, Renesas, Rohm, Samsung, SK Hynix, SMIC, STMicro, Texas Instruments, TSMC, UMC, Winbond, and Wolfspeed.
