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Wafer/die/yield cost formulas through to unit economics, breakeven, NRE payback and a discounted multi-year cash-flow view: sized against your own TAM/SAM/SOM estimates.
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Worked example: a subsidy and fab payback
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- In the report's model of a 28 nm fab in the United States producing 500,000 wafers a year, a 45% subsidy shortens the payback period from 10.0 years to 6.5 years.Source: McKinsey on Semiconductors, No. 9, March 2024, p. 20.
In that model the subsidy brings payback forward by 3.5 years. Your own case depends on node, volume, pricing, location and the terms of the actual award: model it with your numbers, and read Fab siting and subsidies and the chip policy pages for context.
Facts restated in our own words from McKinsey on Semiconductors, No. 9, March 2024, with the printed page. Forecasts are labelled as such and are the report's, not the Hub's. Where the report names a primary source, that source is the authority: check it before relying on a figure.