[img center inline [[406776]]:”Samsung Foundry needs to get its yield rate up to get Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipset business says Korean report”]
But if Samsung Foundry can’t get its 3nm yield rate up to 70% in time to get Qualcomm to sign on the dotted line, and some production capacity doesn’t open up in Taiwan, Qualcomm might have to make some hard decisions. It might have to turn to Samsung Foundry regardless of yield or build the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 SoC on a 4nm process node. According to TF International analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Qualcomm recently ruled out using Intel to build its Snapdragon chips.