Chips
See what chips cost, what goes into them and who makes them
- US chip output +19.9%
- US chip capacity in use +2.79 points
- US chip producer prices +26.0%
- US chip jobs 0.0%
- US electronics new orders +16.6%
- US electronics inventory ratio −0.12 points
- US processor imports from Taiwan, Korea and Mexico +60.9%
- US memory imports from Taiwan, Korea and Mexico +497.4%
- South Korea memory exports +69.8%
- South Korea memory, dollars a kilogram +35.0%
What each part of the chip desk finds
- 01 Die and package cost lab 64 of the largest possible dies fit on a 300 mm wafer
- 02 Materials and chokepoints 100% of the world’s primary gallium comes from China
- 03 The chip makers’ books 29% of a typical chip-tool maker’s sales go to China
- 04 The export-control record 1,110 Chinese entries sit on the US Entity List, 6.6 times 2017’s
- 05 The memory desk Micron’s revenue grows to 4.8× its level of a year ago
- 06 The chip cycle board 8 of 8 chip-cycle indicators improve on three months earlier
- 07 The market desk US chip producer prices move furthest from their usual pace
- 08 The process-node record 15 of 19 process nodes shipped by the date first promised
- 09 The accelerator record NVIDIA’s B200 does 5.3 times the Tesla V100 SXM2’s compute per watt
- 10 AI chips on the inference benchmark NVIDIA B200 served 2.8 times as many DeepSeek-R1 tokens per chip
- 11 The fab record $26.4 billion in CHIPS Act awards goes to 17 US chip plants
- 12 Wafer to watt Follow a chip from raw material to the data center
Terms used on these pages: reticle limit , defect density , chiplet , interposer , high-bandwidth memory , herfindahl index , net import reliance , capital intensity , inventory days , Entity List , foreign direct product rule , gross margin , diffusion index , unit value , average selling price and bit shipments .