Did you actually read the article you linked? 10k per wafer is the cost in-production, at scale. The tapeout process for a 7nm chip is 10s of millions of dollars before you even get to paying per wafer.
You are right for production, I was meaning for verification. MPW is around about 20-30k for 7nm.
In full production even with tapeout cost which is $15M for 7nm chipset cost $1500 per die after sell 10k. Best price for A100 is around $6k in monopoly now.
Even before production, after interpreting images, AI can also collect IP cores and produce new ones in the next steps.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ECE/comments/7hjlpg/for_anyone_curi...
You are right for production, I was meaning for verification. MPW is around about 20-30k for 7nm.
In full production even with tapeout cost which is $15M for 7nm chipset cost $1500 per die after sell 10k. Best price for A100 is around $6k in monopoly now.
Even before production, after interpreting images, AI can also collect IP cores and produce new ones in the next steps.