Samsung Foundry is losing more of Qualcomm’s business as the premium mid-range Snapdragon 7+ Gen 1 chip will be produced by TSMC.
Samsung Foundry manufactured the 4nm Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset and the foundry was expected to build the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC. But Samsung was having a problem at the time with its yields which were only 35%. That means that only 35% of the chips produced by Samsung Foundry from each silicon wafer made it through quality control. TSMC’s yield for its 4nm process node was 70% at the time.
So not only did Qualcomm switch from Samsung to TSMC for the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1, it stuck with the world’s largest foundry for its current top-of-the-line Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Application Processor (AP).
