Qualcomm breakups with Samsung found new love in TSMC

By: Aman Singh

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Updated on: 14-Mar-2023

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According to sources, TSMC's 4nm process will be utilised to make the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 1 rather than Samsung Foundry's 4nm LPE technology, which was used to make the Snapdragon 7 Gen 1. The Snapdragon 7+ Gen 1 will use less power than its predecessor because TSMC's 4nm technology has demonstrated more efficiency as compared to Samsung Foundry's 4nm process. With the launching of the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 last year, Qualcomm appears to be progressively switching from Samsung Foundry to TSMC.

One Cortex-X2 CPU core clocked at 2.92GHz, three Cortex-A710 CPU cores clocked at 2.5GHz, and four Cortex-A510 CPU cores with a maximum frequency of 1.8GHz are claimed to be present in the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 1 chip. The 580MHz Adreno 725 GPU is anticipated to handle graphics processing. These technical details imply that the chip might be a scaled-back variation of the well-liked Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 processor. Also, it's the first time a Cortex-X series Processor has been used in a Snapdragon 7 series SoC.

The Snapdragon 7+ Gen 1's allegedly got 1,232 points in Geekbench's single-core CPU test and 4,095 points in the multi-core CPU test, according to leaked benchmark results.

Notwithstanding the difficulties Samsung has had with its 4nm and 5nm nodes, reports claim that its 3nm GAA technology is noticeably superior. Even yet, it's unclear how accurate the assertions that Samsung's 3nm process performs better than TSMC's 3nm process are. Also, there are rumours that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 may use the 3nm GAA technology from Samsung Foundry, although it is best to take these rumours with a grain of salt.