Samsung Foundry is working to improve its yield on 2nm production which reached 30% in early tests. | Image credit-Unknown
These chips are built on a silicon wafer and each wafer has the potential to produce hundreds of chips. But not each one will pass quality control. The percentage of chips that pass divided by the maximum number of chips that one silicon wafer could produce gives us the yield. Foundries want to see the yield rise to the 60% to 70% range before starting mass production. Last month, Samsung Foundry’s yield on 2nm chip production was 30% in initial tests which indicates that Sammy still has some work to do.
Samsung hopes to start manufacturing the Exynos 2600 by May although the big decision about whether the AP will be used on the Galaxy S26 line won’t be made until we are closer to the end of the year. An insider told FNNews that Samsung Foundry’s yields are stabilizing and that inside the Foundry business unit there is a “sense of urgency” as some believe that the future of the Exynos chip program depends on the flawless development and production of the Exynos 2600.
