Ever since the first rumors surfaced about the recently announced Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 flagship SoC, we knew it would be manufactured by Samsung. Qualcomm partnered with a South Korean firm to use its 4nm foundries for its new flagship platform. However, the US chipmaker doesn't seem to be very happy with the results. This is not surprising when you look at the current chip industry. According to a new report Qualcomm is now shifting some of its manufacturing to TSMC to ensure there are enough chips to meet growing demand.
According to internal industry sources, Qualcomm is unhappy with Samsung's earnings and is unable to manufacture all the required chipsets. As a result, TSMC is likely to take over some of the production. However, some believe that this will have a negative impact on uniformity. Well, it's hard to prevent platform differences even if both manufacturers follow "the same recipe." This happened back in the days of the iPhone 6s, when TSMC and Samsung were suppliers of bots for the Apple A9 processors. Be that as it may, we can still depict things in stone. Perhaps the technology is advanced enough to reduce the differences between the two manufacturers.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 by Samsung and TSMC
This may be a major shift in Qualcomm's strategy for Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processors, but that's not a big surprise. As we said earlier, since the end of 2020, the components industry has been plagued by many constraints. Chipmakers are unable to ensure supply, and this affects both purely hardware devices such as consoles, video cards, and chips inside smartphones.
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Curiously, Qualcomm will be leveraging the two largest chip makers behind the 2022 chip generation. Samsung is making its own Exynos 2200 chips with AMD GPUs and will also be producing part of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. Meanwhile, TSMC will be producing Apple's next-generation chips, as well as MediaTek's Dimensity 9000 and Dimensity 7000 processors.
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 is based on the 4nm process technology, offering greater performance and efficiency. It is based on the new ARMv9 architecture with one ARM Cortex-X2 core @ 3,0 GHz, three ARM Cortex-A710 cores @ up to 2,5 GHz and four ARM Cortex-A510 cores @ up to 1,8 GHz ... The device is also powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 730 processor, which promises to offer a new level of graphics for mobile gaming.
