14 DAY TRIAL // Samsung is looking to become more independent in every area of component manufacturing, and lately we have seen several reports claiming the Korean tech giant is working towards producing an application processor that would take advantage of its own cores and not those traditionally supplied by ARM.
Recently, insiders familiar with the matter revealed that Samsung was indeed working on such a processor with custom cores dubbed “Mongoose,” which is expected to take over the ARM Cortex A72 cores.
Samsung has also recently scored a new deal with Apple that will see it produce the company’s next-gen A9 chips which will be going into this year’s iPhone batch.
We've also seen a few rumors that claimed that reputed chip giant Qualcomm might also be turning its face towards Samsung in the near future.
Even if the Korean tech giant inflicted a pretty hard blow on Qualcomm when it decided against using the Snapdragon 810 in its Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge, the US chip maker is still willing to work with Samsung.
Qualcomm and Samsung to produce the Snapdragon 820
A new report coming from Re/Code suggests Qualcomm will be breaking its bonds with TSMC for the production of its next-gen chip and looking to Samsung for help.
Since TSMC’s 16nm wafers production got postponed for the second or third quarter of the year, and Samsung is slowly but surely increasing production capacity, slashed prices, and above all, is using the superior 14nm FinFET process, it makes sense for Qualcomm to choose to go with the latter.
So it’s possible Samsung will end up making the Snapdragon 820 and A9 chips too, two pieces of silicone that we will probably see powering the majority of flagships launching late this year.
Qualcomm’s working relation with TSMC has been overshadowed by the Snapdragon 810 incident. As you might remember, the chip architecture proved to be controversial since birth, as multiple reports claiming the silicone suffered from overheating issues spawned on the Internet.
Qualcomm might be trying to weasel itself under Samsung’s skin yet again with this partnership, and who knows, maybe at IFA 2015, the Korean tech giant might end up revealing a Galaxy Note 5 with a Snapdragon 820 processor on the inside. What do you think?