Samsung Foundry manufactured the 4nm Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset and the foundry was anticipated to construct the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC. However Samsung was having an issue on the time with its yields which have been solely 35%. That signifies that solely 35% of the chips produced by Samsung Foundry from every silicon wafer made it by high quality management. TSMC’s yield for its 4nm course of node was 70% on the time.
So not solely did Qualcomm swap from Samsung to TSMC for the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1, it caught with the world’s largest foundry for its present top-of-the-line Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Software Processor (AP). And TSMC is rumored to be the foundry that may construct the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset.
Though Qualcomm is headquartered in San Diego, it posted the date of its subsequent new product unveiling on China’s Weibo social media website. That date is March seventeenth, 2023 which is called St. Patrick’s Day. Per SamMobile, at the very least one of many new chips to be launched would be the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 1 which is the sequel to final yr’s premium mid-range Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 SoC.
Qualcomm will maintain its subsequent new product occasion on March seventeenth
Whereas the Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 was constructed by Samsung Foundry utilizing its 4nm course of node, the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 1 goes to be rolling off of the meeting line at TSMC and can use its 4nm node. Over time Qualcomm has alternated between utilizing TSMC and Samsung Foundry and the pendulum has moved over to TSMC because the latter’s chips have been extra power environment friendly. And naturally, TSMC has had larger yields.
The Snapdragon 7+ Gen 1 is rumored to be outfitted with a Cortex-X2 high-performance CPU core operating at 2.92GHz, three Cortex-A710 efficiency CPU cores clocked at 2.5GHz, and 4 Cortex-A510 effectivity CPU cores operating at a clock pace of 1.8GHz. A leaked benchmark take a look at for the chip on Geekbench produced a single-core rating of 1,232 and a multi-core rating of 4,095 which signifies that premium mid-range smartphones quickly are going to be fairly quick.
