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Why was the title edited?
TSMC's wafer pricing now $18,000 for a 3nm wafer, increased over 3X in 10 years: Analyst
The fact that there has been an increase in cost is the key piece of information. Are we expected to know that $18000 is expensive for a wafer?
Post title is auto generated from the embedded meta information, which difffers from the title used on their site.
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