The announcement in the course of the earnings name said, “We’re additionally saying that we prolonged a multiyear settlement with Samsung relating to Snapdragon platforms for flagship Galaxy smartphone launches beginning in 2024. The prolonged settlement demonstrates the worth of Snapdragon 8, our know-how management, and our profitable long-term strategic partnership with Samsung.”
Qualcomm introduced that it has signed a multi-year settlement with Samsung to provide it with Snapdragon silicon
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 AP would be the first to use Qualcomm’s customized CPU cores as an alternative of Arm Holding’s Cortex cores. It can be anticipated to use a configuration made up of two high-performance “Phoenix” CPU cores and 6 medium-performance “Phoenix” CPU cores. That implies that the chip won’t have any low-power Efficiency cores. It additionally will likely be produced utilizing TSMC’s second-generation N3E 3nm course of node. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 could possibly be introduced this coming October.
Meanwhile, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 could possibly be dual-sourced with some chips rolling off of TSMC’s meeting traces and others coming from Samsung Foundry. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 was initially produced by Samsung Foundry, however points with poor yields led Qualcomm to swap manufacturing to TSMC beginning with the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 and anticipated to continue by way of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4. In 2025, we are going to hear whether or not Samsung Foundry will get a few of this enterprise again.