A report released today says that Samsung's yield on the production of its 3nm Gate-all-around chipsets is a poor 10% to 20%, even worse than the 35% yield on its 4nm chips.
Samsung Foundry is the second-largest independent foundry in the world after giant TSMC. In other words, besides manufacturing the Exynos chips that it designs itself, Samsung manufactures chips based on the designs submitted by third-party companies that are the foundry's customers such as Qualcomm.
The Snapdragon 865 Applications Processor was built by TSMC using its 7nm process node. For the 5nm Snapdragon 888 chipset, Qualcomm returned to Samsung and continued to rely on the Korean outfit's foundry for the production of the 4nm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1. That's the AP that currently powers high-end Android handsets made by Samsung, Xiaomi, Motorola, OnePlus, and others.
. What this means is that only 35% of the chip dies cut from a wafer can pass through quality control. Compare that to the 70% yield achieved by TSMC for its production of the 4nm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Plus. In other words, all things being equal, TSMC could manufacture twice as many chips as Samsung Foundry in the same time period.TSMC ended up receiving orders from Qualcomm to build its remaining Snapdragon 8 Gen1 chipsets along with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Plus SoC.
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