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Methodology report v1.0 PDF

Report dated 21 August 2026 · Retained with this release

Major expansion and consolidation of the database ahead of independent critical review, growing coverage to 520 unit process datasets across 18 component categories.

Coverage

Current-generation memory was added: high-bandwidth memory stacks, graphics DRAM, 1γ DRAM, 321-layer 3D NAND and DDR5 module families. The release also brought in silicon photonics and optical transceivers with explicit III–V optical sub-assemblies, single-mode optical fibre and fibre connectors, tantalum capacitor vendor variants, and an expanded set of upstream specialty-chemical datasets.

Variants

Datasets ship with declared variant axes: operational scenarios for wafers; geography options for leading-edge logic and specialty wafers, with a representative manufacturing region per technology; stack heights and production-maturity yield scenarios for high-bandwidth memory; and surface finishes for printed boards.

Methodology

Emissions to water are extracted with chemistry-based transformation rules and abatement destruction efficiencies. The facility-support model was reworked and anchored to publicly disclosed reference fabs, with recipe-driven cleanroom heating and cooling and per-region climate adjustment, and a facility-overhead layer was added for back-end assembly and test sites. A uniform good-unit functional unit gives explicit yield ownership between wafer, packaging and component datasets, and die-count allocation is based on rectangular die packing. Uncertainty is propagated end to end with declared band provenance, per-flow source citations resolve from curated source registries, and dataset-level data-quality scoring disciplines authored pedigree labels against the underlying source evidence.

Corrections

Successive internal review rounds re-anchored packaging process energies, etch-gas quantities and fate, and upstream feed stoichiometry. Every revision was verified dataset by dataset against the preceding release state.

Provenance and review

Citation and uncertainty-band coverage are accounted per inventory row, with recorded exemptions. Data-quality composites use configuration-weighted scoring with one-decimal display. The intra-chain freight layer uses structured legs with a chargeable-weight air basis and documented route mixes. An independent critical review, completed 2026-08-25, was performed; the signed review statement (PDF) is reproduced in the methodology report and available here as a separate download.

Methodology report v0.1 PDF

Report dated 23 March 2026 · Retained with this release

Initial public release.

Coverage

363 unit process datasets across 18 component categories, covering semiconductor wafers from 3nm to 180nm, complete integrated circuits, memory (DRAM, NAND and high-bandwidth memory), advanced packaging (chip-on-wafer-on-substrate, fan-out wafer-level and flip-chip ball grid array), printed circuit boards, passive components, connectors, cables, and supporting infrastructure.