Next-generation processors and graphics cards can significantly rise in price relative to current models.

DigiTimes reports that a 300mm wafer, which will be produced by TSMC using a new 3nm process, will be 25% more expensive than the company's current solutions. And it will rise in price primarily due to the lack of competition.

A new plate will cost $20,000. For comparison, a 5 nm wafer now costs $16,000. True, the transition from 7 nm to 5 nm was associated with an even greater rise in price, since in the first case the price was $ 10,000.

TSMC currently produces GPUs for AMD and Nvidia, CPUs for AMD, and most of the latest SoCs for mobile devices.

True, Samsung is also preparing to start production on the 3 nm process technology by 2024, but so far the yield rate is very low (about 20%).