Samsung is working to improve the production process of 5-nanometer chips

At the last meeting of the shareholders of the “Samsung Device Solutions Unit”, which was held recently, the CEO of this department announced the progress of the chip production process.

According to Kehyun Kyung, Samsung factories are improving the efficiency of advanced chip processes. Of course he is Cited The more advanced this process is, the more complex it will be, and therefore improving the rate of return will take time. Of course, he did not elaborate. This explanation seems to be the answer to the low production rate of Samsung chips.

Samsung low chip production efficiency

Although Samsung has not officially confirmed it, the production rate of the 5-nanometer Snapdragon 8 generation 1 chip has been announced as only 35%. This makes the production of expensive Qualcomm flagship chipsets complex and complex. Samsung Exynos 2100 chip is also produced in similar factories.

It is also reported that Samsung lags behind Taiwanese company TSMC in terms of production with lithography less than 5 nanometers. This could force Qualcomm to separate from Samsung to produce chips with 3nm technology and move to Korean rival TSMC. Apple, on the other hand, may have already reserved much of TSMC’s 3nm production capacity for future generations of the A-Series as well as the M-Series chips. In addition, it should be noted that AMD is also working on Zen-based processors based on 3nm lithography.

There is talk of Qualcomm moving production to TSMC this year. Some reliable sources have indicated that Qualcomm will transfer part of its flagship chip production process to TSMC this year. The new chip, called the Snapdragon 8 Gene 1 Plus (+ Snapdragon 8 Gen 1), is likely to hit future flagship mobile phones.