Report: Samsung will be making some Snapdragon 8 Elite 2nd gen chips on a 2nm node
It seems that Qualcomm plans to dual source the 2nd generation of Snapdragon 8 Elite – Korean publication Sedaily reports that Qualcomm and Samsung have reached a deal to fab the chip on the advanced 2nm node, but also that TSMC will produce a version of the chip on a 3nm node. Samsung will be making the chips at its Hwaseong S3 factory, producing a thousand 12-inch wafers a month. These chips will be used in Galaxy devices in the second half of next year – if that is true, they will be too late for the Galaxy S26 series, so maybe the Galaxy Z Fold8 and Z Flip8 (possibly the Tab S11...
It seems that Qualcomm plans to dual source the 2nd generation of Snapdragon 8 Elite – Korean publication Sedaily reports that Qualcomm and Samsung have reached a deal to fab the chip on the advanced 2nm node, but also that TSMC will produce a version of the chip on a 3nm node. Samsung will be making the chips at its Hwaseong S3 factory, producing a thousand 12-inch wafers a month. These chips will be used in Galaxy devices in the second half of next year – if that is true, they will be too late for the Galaxy S26 series, so maybe the Galaxy Z Fold8 and Z Flip8 (possibly the Tab S11...
