Foundry IR ECONOMICS — per-foundry, per-process-node, per-fiscal-quarter wafer ASP (min/max/blended, USD per 300mm-equivalent wafer, $250-grained) and fab UTILIZATION (%), derived exclusively from PUBLIC IR materials (earnings releases/transcripts/decks, trade press) via a documented scaling calculation (rev-mix-v1): reported revenue × reported node revenue-shares × reported wafer shipments, allocated on pinned analyst prior ratios. Covers tsmc | umc | intel | samsung | smic | gf. Every row carries source_urls + release_dates + confidence (high/medium/low); utilization is 'stated' (company said it — UMC/SMIC style) or 'derived' (shipments vs capacity estimate, capped medium) and NEVER fabricated per node. include_facts=true returns the underlying evidence facts (verbatim quote + source per datum).
Also returns node_margin_estimates for TSMC: per-node est. wafer price / est. wafer cost / est. GROSS MARGIN % with ranges (N3/N5/N7/N16/N28+/N2) — single-vintage Silicon Analysts ESTIMATES from public analysis, explicitly labelled (TSMC does not disclose per-node margin; company-level GM is quarterly IR).
USE THIS for: "what does a TSMC 3nm wafer sell for and how has it moved by quarter?", "TSMC blended ASP trend", "UMC utilization last quarter", "N3 share of TSMC revenue over time", "estimated gross margin by node", node-economics history for models.
DO NOT USE for: the current spot wafer price band only (use get_wafer_pricing — that is the live analyst-consensus band this dataset cross-validates against); allocation/lead-time/booking (use get_foundry_allocation); chip-level cost (use calculate_chip_cost / get_accelerator_costs).
Filters: foundry, node (canonical token, e.g. n3 | 22-28nm | 18a), node_group (leading_3nm | class_5nm | ...), quarter (2026Q1 | 2025FY), from/to range, include_facts, limit. LATEST period per foundry is free; multi-period HISTORY (quarter/from/to) requires a Pro key — free callers are clamped to latest with an explanatory meta.note (never an error). Sparse-disclosure foundries (Intel, Samsung) return nulls/low confidence rather than invented numbers. Refreshes weekly (Mon 14:30 UTC) + each earnings season. Cite as "Silicon Analysts — Foundry IR Economics".