Amid reports that Samsung Foundry is having more problems with its yields, the foundry could stop prepping its 1.4nm node.
Samsung Foundry has been having yield issues for several years and this year’s low yield at 3nm resulted in a delay in the production of the 3nm Exynos 2500 application processor (AP). Thanks to the delay, Samsung had to address a probable shortage issue by using the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite AP on all models of its flagship Galaxy S25 line. Originally the plan was to use the Qualcomm SoC on all Galaxy S25 Ultra phones and Galaxy S25 and Galaxy S25+ units in the U.S., Canada, and China. All other models would sport the Exynos 2500.
Next year’s Exynos 2600 is rumored to be built using the 2nm node that Samsung Foundry is mass producing later this year. But test yields at this node are also poor (30%) even though there has been talk of an overall improvement in the foundry’s yields. A distant second in market share to TSMC, Samsung Foundry currently has 8.2% of the contract foundry industry compared to 67.
