The cost of silicon is negligible compared to the cost of creating a high purity wafer. What will matter here is not the raw material cost but the processing co

The cost of silicon is negligible compared to the cost of creating a high purity wafer. What will matter here is not the raw material cost but the processing cost. Even if this new material is 500x the cost of silicon I doubt it will matter if the processing can be done for the same price.