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TSMC engineer boasts of recent 6% boost to 2nm yields, passing 'billions in savings' to customers
(www.tomshardware.com)
The customers are vendors, not you.
this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2024
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TSMC's customers being multinational corporations, not end users.
That ain't how pricing works... Corpo always charges the max it can get away with.
Cost structure is a secondary factor in pricing.
About time plebs got a clue... Just fucking look at your grocery store lol
Government created these monopolies and daddy Sam let's them fuck us🤡
But hey TSMC needs us taxpyer money;)
Doesn't really apply in this case.
TSMC charges per wafer. If yield improves, that means each wafer will have higher quality chips, on average. Which could mean less junk chips and/or more chips that will make it to a higher bin (which could mean more speed or less that needs to be fused off due to a flaw).
Also, you're not the customer they are talking about. They mean their customers, like Apple, AMD, Nvidia, etc.
Though you might see some savings because higher yields means inventory levels increase, which could mean a lower optimal price on the supply/demand curve. Even if the MSRP is lower than the optimal price, it would still mean less opportunity to scalp the chips for profit.
They mean their customers, like Apple, AMD, Nvidia, etc.
So these guys will make more affordable products... Right?
which could mean a lower optimal price on the supply/demand curve.
Not when everything is controlled by oligopolies but sure it "could"
billions of saving for (expected) billions of customers: "best I can do is a buck"