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