Photo Credit: TSMC Although companies like Samsung and TSMC have already announced the opening of new factories to meet the increasing demand for chips in all areas, the silicon wafers come from companies such as GlobalWafers, Shin-Etsu and Sumco, which have no expansion plans that go hand in hand with those of semiconductor manufacturers.
Photo Credit: China Times Obviously, we don't know at the moment how much the higher price of wafers will affect the cost of individual chips.
Graphcore also recently unveiled its new Bow Intelligence Processing Unit processor, abbreviated to Bow IPU, the first in the world to have been built with TSMC's 3D Wafer-On-Wafer technique. In case you are interested, find all the relevant information in our dedicated news.