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The Snapdragon 875, the chipset that we hope to find inside the Samsung Galaxy S21, could be manufactured by Samsung itself, raising questions about the fate of the Exynos chipsets.
Samsung has apparently started production at its Hwaseong, Korea facility, according to a report from BusinessKorea. The foundry uses extreme ultraviolet lithography to draw the necessary patterns required for the chipset on the silicon base.
Qualcomm, the company that designs the Snapdragon line of SoCs, generally licenses TSMC to build the chips. However, it appears that Samsung Semiconductor made a better offer this year, resulting in an order that is supposedly worth between $ 850 million and $ 1 billion.
Samsung already designs and manufactures its own mobile chipset in the form of the Exynos range. Unfortunately, while the gap is not significant, Snapdragon chips have historically outperformed their Exynos counterparts in benchmarks.
Now that Samsung has effectively cornered the market in producing chipsets for the best Android phones on the way, this raises questions about what happens to Exynos. We may see Samsung abandon development as it now has much easier access to Qualcomm designs. Similarly, since the 875 is a flagship-level chip, perhaps Exynos’ designers are aiming more for low-to-mid-range chipsets for cheaper Samsung phones like the Galaxy A series, while the Samsung phones are more likely to be targeted. the Galaxy S and Galaxy Z series start to use Qualcomm chips. worldwide.
Samsung’s US owners would not notice any change from this, as in the US Samsung uses Snapdragon chips for its phones due to a pending deal with Qualcomm. However, in the rest of the world, users get phones with Exynos technology.
The Snapdragon 875 (an assumed name) will be Qualcomm’s first chip made using a 5-nanometer (nm) process. That means it will be the densest chip we’ve seen from the company so far, which will hopefully mean there will be additional processing grunt and more efficient power consumption than the current chip.
Apple will be the first to commercialize a 5nm chip with its A14 Bionic, which will power the next series of iPhone 12 phones this fall.
Overall, the Galaxy S21 remains a mystery. We’ve heard that it may feature an improved 108MP camera, as well as 60W fast charging. More importantly, this may be the first Samsung phone to not have a camera notch, with the selfie shooter tucked under the display.
