Samsung signs a multi-year deal with Qualcomm to continue receiving Snapdragon chips

Samsung signs a multi-year deal with Qualcomm to continue receiving Snapdragon chips،

Even though the Samsung Exynos 2400 Deca-core application processor (AP) performed excellently in benchmark tests, Samsung still wants to use Snapdragon chipsets on the high-end Galaxy S Ultra models and for Galaxy S models. smaller in the United States. and China. As a result, Samsung signed a multi-year deal with Qualcomm, the fabless chip designer behind the Snapdragon chip line.

Qualcomm announced the deal during its 2024 earnings call and noted that the contract would take effect this year. The first Samsung phones to use Snapdragon chips covered by the deal were the Galaxy S24 series. Samsung fans can rest easy knowing that future Galaxy S and Galaxy Z phones will be powered by Snapdragon hotspots (region-dependent for the older series, of course).

The announcement during the earnings call stated: “We are also announcing that we have extended a multi-year agreement with Samsung for Snapdragon platforms for flagship Galaxy smartphone launches starting in 2024. The extended agreement demonstrates the value of Snapdragon 8, our technological leadership and our successful long-term strategic partnership with Samsung.

Qualcomm announced that it has signed a multi-year agreement with Samsung to supply it with Snapdragon silicon

The Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 AP will be the first to use Qualcomm's custom CPU cores instead of Arm Holding's Cortex cores. It is also expected to use a configuration consisting of two high-performance “Phoenix” CPU cores and six mid-performance “Phoenix” CPU cores. This means that the chip will not have low-power cores. It will also be produced using TSMC's second-generation 3nm N3E process node. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 could be announced next October.

Meanwhile, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 could be dual-sourced, with some chips coming off TSMC's assembly lines and others coming from Samsung Foundry. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 was initially produced by Samsung Foundry, but issues with poor yields led Qualcomm to shift production to TSMC starting with the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 and is expected to continue until the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 in 2025 , we will know if Samsung Foundry will recover some of this activity.

Neither Samsung nor Qualcomm revealed the terms of the new agreement.