From ComputerWorld: Samsung Electronics will be making Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 820 mobile processors, refueling speculation that the chips could find their way into the South Korean giant's premium smartphones, thus winning back lost business.
The chip maker said Thursday it had begun mass production of logic chips using its 14-nanometer LPP (Low-Power Plus) process, which is used to make its own Exynos 8 Octa processor. It added that the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor also uses the 14nm LPP process and is expected to be in devices in the first half of this year.
Samsung declined to comment on whether the Snapdragon processor would also be designed into Samsung's phones, including the upcoming Galaxy S7. Leaks of the device, rumored to be announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next month, have suggested that it could use the Snapdragon 820.
Qualcomm said it has always used a variety of fab suppliers and will continue to do so. "Our decision to choose a specific process technology is based on its ability to meet our design goals for performance, power efficiency and yield," a Qualcomm spokeswoman wrote via email.
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