Foundry Wafer Price Comparison

Name: Foundry Wafer Price Comparison
Creator: Silicon Analysts

Side-by-side wafer price comparison across TSMC, Samsung, and SMIC at comparable nodes (4nm, 3nm, 2nm).

Coverage window: 2023 → 2025 (SMIC) (7 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: Weekly — cost models recompute when inputs move (Monday refresh fleet, 11:00–12:30 UTC); values are stable between input changes.
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): Morgan Stanley / TrendForce 2024 (1) · Morgan Stanley / analyst consensus 2024 (1) · EE Times Asia / HWCooling.net Nov 2025 (1) · Silicon Analysts (1) · Deep Research (1) · SemiWiki (1) · Andy Lin blog (granitefirm.com) (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-comparison
Machine-readable: /api/v1/catalog/wafer-price-comparison/contract