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
1010 candidate dies · yield 80%
AMD Zen 4 CCD (EPYC Genoa / Ryzen 7000)
AMD (manufactured by TSMC)
N566.3 mm² die~81 masks957 process steps808 good dies/wafer80% yield
A small chiplet die — AMD deliberately chose this strategy to improve yield on advanced nodes. A full EPYC Genoa package contains up to 12 CCDs plus a 397 mm^2 I/O die on N6 (the I/O die's separate footprint is not counted here).