According to reports from South Korea, Samsung has secured a contract for the production of Snapdragon 750 chips. The new 5G chipset should be used by premium mid-range smartphones. The value of the "deal" is unknown at this time.
Samsung, or rather its semiconductor division Samsung Foundry, should manufacture the chip using the 8nm FinFET process. Samsung phones are said to be the first to receive them Galaxy A42 5G and Xiaomi Mi 10 Lite 5G, which should be launched towards the end of the year.
The South Korean tech giant recently secured contracts to manufacture Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 875 flagship chip, which is believed to be manufactured using a 5nm EUV process, Nvidia's RTX 3000 series graphics cards, which will be manufactured using an 8nm process, as well as IBM's POWER10 data center chip, which will produced by the 7nm process. Samsung's contracts with Qualcomm are a result of Samsung's technological prowess and better pricing, according to tech business insiders.
Samsung is said to be planning to spend 8,6 billion dollars every year (converted to less than 200 billion crowns) on the development and improvement of its chip technologies and the purchase of new devices. Although it entered the semiconductor market late, today it already competes with the current market leader, the Taiwanese company TSMC. According to the TrendForce technology consulting firm, Samsung's share of the global semiconductor market now amounts to 17,4%, while sales for the third quarter of this year are estimated to reach 3,67 billion dollars (over 84 billion crowns in conversion).
