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by lizknope 1124 days ago
I've taped out 4 chips in 5nm and our managers and VP's have said about $30 million for a full set of masks (base layers plus metal layers)

The $20 million is for metal layers only for a respin.

We are moving to 3nm right now which will be even more expensive.

The open source tools can't handle the latest process nodes. Maybe in the future but this is a highly specialized area with tons of NDAs from the fabs for PDKs and DRC decks.