Qualcomm recently launched the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 flagship chipset which comes manufactured using the 4nm process node from Samsung. The order for making the Snapdragon chips was a big win for the Samsung Foundry.
However, it is being reported that the South Korea-based technology giant has lost the business for manufacturing Qualcomm’s Snapdragon series chips.
As per the report, Samsung is facing a major issue with the production of Snapdragon chips as the yield rate for the chip Snapdragon 8 Gen1 is about 35 percent. This means that out of 100 chips produced, only 35 are good enough to be used by the phone manufacturers.
The yield rate is quite poor and it is being said that Qualcomm is in talks with the TSMC to move its business back to the Taiwan-based foundry. It is said that the yield rate for the 4nm chips from TSMC is about 70 percent, twice that of what Samsung is offering.
It is also being reported that along with Qualcomm, NVIDIA is also moving away from Samsung to TSMC for the 7nm graphics chip which was originally planned to be manufactured by the South Korean company.
There are reports about Qualcomm planning to launch the “Plus” version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset earlier than usual, sometime in the second quarter, and this new chipset will be manufactured by TSMC and not Samsung.
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