Wafers a month, the unit in which packaging and wafer capacity are counted. See wafer. The Scorecard.
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Where the record uses it
- Scorecard indicator CoWoS
Sources that use it
- Asa Fitch, “Musk’s Chip-Making Vision With Intel Is a Distant Prospect,” Heard on the Street, The Wall Street Journal, 24 April 2026, and Mike Wheatley, “Elon Musk announces ambitious $20B Terafab project to manufacture chips for space-based AI,” SiliconANGLE, 22 March 2026 (Musk’s target of 100,000 WPM in 2027 rising to one million; the 100,000 wafers a month and the one million are read in SiliconANGLE’s free report of the announcement, held in the Library, where the plant is “designed to start manufacturing 100,000 wafers per month” and “will ultimately scale up to 1 million per month when it reaches full capacity”, and where “No timeline was given for the project”, so the year 2027 rests on the Journal alone and, like the Journal’s own wording of the two figures, is not verified against the article body, which is cut at the publisher’s copyright line three paragraphs in; a free witness for the year was searched for on 26 September 2026 and none was found). In the Sources
- TSMC plans 3-nanometre chip production launch in Japan in 2028, Reuters, 1 April 2026 (Kumamoto Fab 2: 15,000 12-inch WPM). In the Sources
- TrendForce, “TSMC 3nm Monthly Wafer Starts to Hit 180K by Early 4Q26 on Strong Demand,” 3 August 2026 (N3 ~150,000 WPM in H1 2026 → ~180,000 — estimates, not company disclosure; N2 50,000–60,000 → ~100,000 by end-2026). In the Sources
Related terms
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “WPM.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/wpm (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-wpm-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{WPM}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/wpm},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}