Last month, word got out that Samsung Foundry was experiencing a poor 35% yield on the production of Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chips. That means that only 35% of the chips cut from a wafer could pass Quality Control. TSMC, manufacturing the 4nm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Plus, has been able to achieve a 70% production yield.
MediaTek’s Dimensity 9000 SoC has outscored the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 in benchmark tests
But truthfully, Samsung might not have that time since Qualcomm is already planning to take the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1+ and perhaps the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 to TSMC. And Qualcomm itself has MediaTek and the Dimensity 9000 SoC to deal with. Interesting times are ahead in the semiconductor industry as the 3nm process node is straight ahead.
