The Fermi Thread - Part 3

[highoctane]

A few thousand dollars more per wafer adds up pretty fast when you are buying tens of thousands of wafers...

General math isn't the issue, it's more or less your insistence that each wafer definitively costs "a few thousand dollars" more and how that range was derived or was it contrived.

I'm not saying you don't know but if you don't have anything to substantiate the claim what are we suppose to think. I mean I can say the wafers are more expensive but it avgs out to only $1 extra per die per wafer, I'm right trust me.

Who knows what kind of arrangement Nvidia have with TSMC and in what way wafer costs and yield issues are handled between the two. For all we know TSMC could have guaranteed price for a fixed number of operational dies regardless of the actual yield per wafer.