Optimize Semiconductor Costs and Pricing with Confidence
Unlock Cost Transparency and Pricing Power
TechInsights' Semiconductor Manufacturing Economics models provide procurement professionals with in-depth, bottom-up cost simulations of the entire semiconductor production process – from wafer fabrication to assembly and test – giving you quantitative insights into prices and cost categories, including equipment, materials, facilities, and labor. Learn about TechInsights’ comprehensive portfolio of semiconductor cost and price modeling tools included within Semiconductor Manufacturing Economics.
- Negotiate Smarter: Leverage detailed insights into semiconductor manufacturing costs.
- Lower Costs: Reduce purchasing prices with insights into semiconductor manufacturing costs based on product volumes.
- Make Informed Decisions: Quantify the cost difference of a larger or more complex die.
- Gain Market Advantage: Stay ahead with projections from 2015 to 2035, covering a wide range of technologies.
How It Works: The Cost and Price Modeling Process
Step 1
Model semiconductor manufacturing costs using verified industry or TechInsights reverse engineering data.
Step 2
Compare against supplier quotes or internal cost structures.
Step 3
Identify margin discrepancies, cost reduction opportunities, and pricing benchmarks.
Step 4
Negotiate effectively using fact-based data.
Who Uses These Models?
- Procurement and Supply Chain Teams: Conduct should-cost analysis to negotiate pricing.
- Foundries and IDMs: Benchmark fab costs and optimize operational efficiency.
- Make Informed Decisions: Quantify the cost difference of a larger or more complex die.
- Materials and Equipment Suppliers: Check foundry price requests and defend fair supplier pricing.
How TechInsights Helps Optimize Semiconductor Sourcing
Discover how a leading electronics manufacturer used TechInsights’ Semiconductor Manufacturing Economics to analyze production costs, assess supply chain risks, and make data-driven sourcing decisions for discrete semiconductors and ICs.
Securing Better Semiconductor Pricing with Data-Driven Insights
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Why Trust TechInsights?
- Industry-Leading Expertise: 24+ years of semiconductor cost modeling experience.
- Trusted by Top Semiconductor Manufacturers: Used by leading Fabs, IDMs, Foundries, and Capital Equipment Manufacturers.
- Data-Backed Insights: Our Cost models are validated against real-world production data.
Model Information
- Assembly and Test Cost and Price Model
Easily estimate manufacturing costs and selling prices for most IC testing and assembly operations and also get total product cost using wafer cost inputs.- Cost and price for assembly and test of semiconductors
- Unit cost and price, materials requirements, and equipment requirements
- Cost and price by process, volume, and date from 2010 to 2035
- IC Cost and Price Model
Easily estimate the cost and selling price of low-power silicon integrated circuits.- Wafer fabrication, test, and packaging costs
- Coverage from 3-µm technologies on 100mm wafers to the latest in production state-of-the-art on 300mm wafers
- Cost (manufacturing cost) and price (selling price) estimates for a wide range of semiconductors
- Cost and price by volume and date from 2015 to 2030
- Fab Database
Get access to the world’s most detailed database of global semiconductor fabs.- 300mm Watch database contains all 300mm wafer fabs both current and planned, including locations, key dates, partners, capital investments, incentives, nodes, products, capacities (from 2010 to 2030), and analysis graphs
- Semico Fab database of >1000 operating, planned, and closed global semiconductor fabs from 3-inch to 300mm, including locations, key dates, capital investments, nodes, products, capacities (from 2018 to 2023) and analysis graphs
- Discrete and Power Products Cost and Price Model
Seamlessly estimate the cost and selling price of high-power silicon and compound semiconductor integrated circuits and discrete devices.- Wafer fabrication, test, and packaging costs
- Coverage of 100mm to 300mm wafer sizes
- Cost (manufacturing cost) and price (selling price) estimates for a wide range of semiconductors
- Cost and price by volume and date from 2015 to 2030
- Strategic Cost and Price Model
Explore past, current, and future technologies from the leading producers in four segments: DRAM, Foundry and IDM Logic, and NAND. The model is a wafer cost and price model only and produces detailed wafer costs, equipment sets, and materials.- Cost and price for leading-edge 300mm wafer processes
- A detailed technology roadmap for 3D NAND, DRAM and Logic, and equipment and materials requirements
- Cost and price by process, volume, and date from 2000 to 2035
Our experts are ready to help you reduce costs and improve efficiency in your semiconductor designs and supply chain.
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