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Good question. I think the wafer has a cost per area which is fairly significant, but I don't have any figures. There has historically been a push to utilise them more efficiently, eg by building fabs that can process larger wafers. Although mask exposure would be per processed area, I think that there are also some proportion of processing time which is per wafer, so the unprocessed area would have an opportunity cost relating to that.


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