NRE / design cost

Name: NRE / design cost
Creator: Silicon Analysts

Point-in-time daily ledger of NRE / design cost — every move dated and sourced.

Coverage window: 2026-06-07 → 2026-08-27 (1,364 rows)
Computed from the backing series at page-render time — never typed by hand.
History honesty: History accrues in place from the ledger start (2026-06-06) — append-only, never backfilled; depth before the start cannot exist.
Cadence: Ledger snapshots daily at 08:00 UTC; movements appear only when a value actually moves. Empty window = nothing moved.
Revision policy: Append-only: a frozen day is never edited or deleted (database-enforced). Corrections are registered in data_corrections and served alongside; restatements surface via /api/v1/changes.
Sources (source): Analyst estimates, discounted vs TSMC, 2024 (264) · Analyst estimates, mask set $10-20M range midpoint, 2024 (132) · CSET / analyst consensus, mask set $5-8M, 2024 (132) · Analyst consensus, EUV mask set $3-5M, 2023 (132) · Analyst estimates, mature FinFET, 2023 (132) · Industry consensus, mask set $800K-1.5M, 2023 (132) · Analyst estimates, EUV mask set discounted vs TSMC N7, 2024 (16) · Analyst estimates, 10nm-class DUV multi-patterning, 2024 (16)
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: Fully open
API: /api/v1/snapshot
Machine-readable: /api/v1/catalog/ledger-nre_cost/contract