TheChipAccount
What does it cost the planet to manufacture a single chip? Pick a chip below and see the water, energy, and emissions behind every transistor — every number backed by a cited source.
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300mm wafer
648 candidate dies · yield 75%
Apple A18 Pro
Apple (manufactured by TSMC)
N3E105 mm² die~87 masks1088 process steps486 good dies/wafer75% yield
N3E is TSMC's second-generation 3nm process — slightly relaxed vs N3B but with better yield. Heavy EUV usage (~18 critical layers). A18 Pro is a monolithic SoC packaged using InFO-PoP with DRAM stacked on top (DRAM package not counted in this footprint).