Qualcomm's Snapdragon 865 Chips to be Manufactured by TSMC, Not Samsung

Well-known American chipmaker Qualcomm has reportedly made a concluding-infinitesimal decision to go with TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) instead of Samsung to industry its adjacent-gen flagship Snapdragon 865 chipset.

Co-ordinate to Business Korea study, Qualcomm fabricated the decision to refrain from using Samsung Electronics' foundry considering it was concerned about sharing its bit-related intellectual properties with the S Korean company.

As explained in the study, commercial manufacturing of ICs and processors require the fabless and foundry companies to collaborate and share sensitive intellectual property, including detailed chip designs and more. That being the instance, the The states fleck major is said to have been worried about handing over the Snapdragon 865 details to Samsung because of the latter's growing clout in the semiconductor marketplace. Samsung has already become the world'southward third-largest mobile chipmaker with its in-firm Exynos SoCs.

The report, however, claims that Qualcomm yet intends to hand over the task of producing the Snapdragon 765 and 765G 5G chipsets to Samsung. Given that these are mid-range chipsets, Qualcomm believes it will be less of a chance to hand over its designs to Samsung engineers as they lack much of the premium technology found in the Snapdragon 865.

On its role, Samsung recently stopped work on the development of custom CPU cores for its Exynos mobile processors, deciding instead to focus on GPUs (graphics processing units) and NPUs (neural processing units). This ways the Mongoose M5 Cores in Samsung's recently-announced Exynos 990 5G integrated chipset will be the company's last custom CPU cores earlier information technology switches over to reference designs from ARM.

Source: https://beebom.com/snapdragon-865-chipsets-manufacture-tsmc-not-samsung/

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