Samsung has been rumored to be planning on launching the Galaxy S23 series with an overclocked version of Qualcomm’s latest and greatest Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC. Now, a new rumor has revealed that this beefed up variant of the next gen flagship chipsets will be manufactured by Samsung Foundry.
For those unaware, the South Korean tech giant typically offered its flagship smartphones with its proprietary Exynos chips everywhere except the US, Canada, and China. However, following backlash over notable performance difference, the company now will be offering Qualcomm chipsets on a “global share” of the Galaxy S23 series this year.
Furthermore, recent reports had revealed that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 will have a higher clock speed that the actual models, which means it will offer slightly better performance. And now, a tweet from RGcloudS claims that there will be two version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC. The AC variant will be produced using TSMC’s N4P process mode, meanwhile Samsung Foundry will be manufacturing the Version AB on its 4nm LPE process.
TSMC is the world’s largest contract chipmaker with Samsung Foundry is also a major player in the same field. Talking about the chips itself, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is set to feature a Cortex X3 Prime core at 3.2GHz and the Galaxy X3 core on the Galaxy S23 is rumored to have a 3.32GHz clock speed. This is all the information we have last the moment so stick around for more, as we will be providing updates when additional details are available regarding this matter.
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