Snapdragon 855 will be manufactured using tsmc's 7nm node
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It looks like Samsung will be very successful next year. The Korean tech giant's chip manufacturing has skyrocketed to new heights lately. With Qualcomm as a partner also preparing its Snapdragon 855 chips, the Korean tech giant dominates when it comes to incorporating its hardware into devices.
Snapdragon 855 will mean the jump to 7nm
Qualcomm will switch to TSMC as its main manufacturing partner next year for high-performance chips, using the 7nm node.
When we talk about flagship Android processors, only two possibilities come to mind. Snapdragon from Qualcomm and Exynos from Samsung.
Nikkei's new reports on Qualcomm are bringing us ahead of Qualcomm's move to TSMC. According to its sources, TSMC will manufacture the Snapdragon 855 with a 7nm manufacturing process. Qualcomm will move its production to the Taiwanese factory. This is a huge win for TSMC, which already has all of Apple's orders for Cupertino's A-series processors. However, this cooperation will not last long.
Nikkei also reports that the San Diego chip firm will switch back to Samsung in 2019 - for its high-end products in 2020. This will ensure that Samsung has its 7nm chips ready.
The jump to 7nm will mean having more powerful smaprtphones and with less energy consumption, which will translate into devices with greater autonomy. The upcoming Snapdragon 855 will benefit from this leap, in addition to Samsung's upcoming Exynos chips (Recall that the Galaxy use both) and Apple's SoC for its upcoming iPhone.
Wccftech fontQualcomm confirms that the snapdragon 855 was manufactured at 7nm
The processor is tentatively known as Snapdragon 855 will also introduce the long-awaited 5G technology.
The 7nm node already represents 10% of tsmc's profits
TSMC confirmed that its 7nm node represented almost 10% of the company's revenue in 2018, and 20% in the last quarter.
The first chips start to be manufactured at 7nm
TSMC will start manufacturing the chips this year in a 7nm process, something Samsung has already announced recently. lower consumption and higher performance.
