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It turns out that Samsung will be the sole producer of Qualcomm’s latest system-on-chip (SoC) Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 for smartphones.
Samsung produces in 4nm process
Qualcomm officially announced the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 on December 1, local time. Cristiano Amon, CEO, answers questions during the Q & A session at the media presentation, using only Samsung’s 4 nanometer (nm) process nodes to produce the SoC. I made it clear.
In addition, Alex Katuzian, Head of Mobile Compute & Infrastructure Business Unit and Senior Vice President of Qualcomm, told the press in another interview that TSMC will not be used to produce the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. That is.
The two statements suggest that Samsung will be solely responsible for the production of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1.
Samsung just lost its contract with Nvidia
It has been repeatedly rumored that TSMC cannot afford to receive orders from other manufacturers due to the large number of orders received from Apple.
Meanwhile, a person familiar with Samsung’s situation told Korean media The Elec that Samsung has recently lost a GPU order contract from Nvidia and has more production capacity available to Qualcomm.
Source: The Elec
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Source: iPhone Mania