Report: Samsung will be making some Snapdragon 8 Elite 2nd gen chips on a 2nm node

30 April 2025
Those chips will be used in Galaxy devices - but they may not be ready in time for the Galaxy S26 launch.

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Ahmad faisal berry, 04 May 2025Samsung semiconductor and exynos 2600 production, reportedl... moreWhat you're saying is related to technical aspect, not ethical. It may be any amount of efficient, but you're not answering my question:- if anything goes wrong even now, will Samsung correct it for users?
TSMC is reliable, even if not the best performing ever.

Still, many M55, F55, M55s, etc are being sold in India despite (some units) being defective. Who will refund their owners?

    Sam N8 808 owner, 03 May 2025True, and despite knowing this, and despite the giant Samsu... moreSamsung semiconductor and exynos 2600 production, reportedly using facebook's AI LLma 4/ expected to be as efficient as apple hardware. Apple hasn't used 2nm tsmc yet, production costs are still expensive, around $30,000 thousand usd per wafer, basic standard fabrication variant. 2nm tsmc yield is still not perfect, it is expected that Qualcomm SD 8 elite Gen 2 will be produced by 3nm tsmc generation 3 and 2nm samsung to reduce tsmc, tsmc access to 2nm fabrication is not easy and the cost is also expensive for production (samsung foundry market share 12% vs tsmc 67.1% Q4 2024 there is indeed a very big difference. semiconductor can only compete with tsmc only samsung foundry and even then it burns money like crazy. amd's global foundries are not known, their market share is used by third parties other than amd)

      DarlingYext, 03 May 2025The 7 Gen 1, as well as other chipsets like the 8 Gen 1 and... moreactually Qualcomm still uses Samsung Foundry services, except MediaTek fully uses TSMC services/ how about SD 6 Gen 3 and XR2+ Gen 2 SoCs, are they also bad? why would Samsung Foundry invest in the United States if not to compete closely with TSMC, starting operations in 2030. Samsung Foundry aspires to build a semiconductor megacluster in collaboration with Skyhynix. clearly all are burning money, either making a profit or a big loss.

        DarlingYext, 03 May 2025The 7 Gen 1, as well as other chipsets like the 8 Gen 1 and... moreTrue, and despite knowing this, and despite the giant Samsung is, no refunds or buybacks were ever offered.
        Customers stuck with a lemon phone were just that... stuck. Until they could pass their misery to someone unsuspecting.

          eveeeve, 02 May 2025Samsung better cook with this time. Competition is good, bu... moreDon't worry, if Samsung doesn't cook with this one either, the customers will surely be able to do so.

            Sam N8 808 owner, 01 May 2025"" However, insiders say that this deal is a show... moreThe 7 Gen 1, as well as other chipsets like the 8 Gen 1 and the 888 were all made by Samsung and none of them were good enough for the price points they were targeted at.

              YUKI93, 01 May 2025The thing is, Exynos used to be a good chip before, especia... moreYou said something that made sense, so of course that user whose username is a portmanteau of a Yamaha motorcycle and the error code for *not found" laugh reacted

                Sam N8 808 owner, 02 May 2025Agreed, but the question is about ethics, bro. The way the... moreWhile true Samsung had choice to use or not to use, fault is from Arm themselves A710 shouldn't exist.

                And it's not just Samsung issues even Tsmc Made soc like 8+ gen 1 and 7+ gen 2 they still trail behind dimensity 8100 even though they use superior node.

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                  Anonymous, 01 May 2025majority of snapdragon 4/6/7 gens are actually fabbed by samsung.I need more details on this.

                    Hemedans, 01 May 20257 gen 1 use Cortex A710, no one use those cores and got goo... moreAgreed, but the question is about ethics, bro.
                    The way they're shoving an unreliable midrange chipset down customer's throat is not trust-inspiring. They're still selling it as we talk..

                    Is this the same tech-giant that called back all Note 7, and won customer respect in 2016? or has it changed?
                    Tomorrow, if something or the other goes wrong with Elite 2, will they man up and take responsiblity? In a flagship where a person has spent almost his 1 month income?

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                      • 02 May 2025

                      any phone that use this need to put the chip outside the phone instead of inside :D

                        Samsung better cook with this time. Competition is good, but I hope it won't turn into another electric stove that you can fry eggs with it

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                          Russian Roulette!

                            Great idea of they're using them to power a portable heater or a kettle. Not sure about a phone though

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                              Ra-Iri, 01 May 2025And add the absolute inefficient Mongoose cores in the 2018... moreMongoose was the genuine mistake samsung made. Exynos both before and after mongoose era are perfectly fine chips, and mostly stand up to their competitors. Mongoose tainted the exynos name an unbelievable amount.

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                                • 01 May 2025

                                majority of snapdragon 4/6/7 gens are actually fabbed by samsung.

                                  YUKI93, 01 May 2025The thing is, Exynos used to be a good chip before, especia... more835 and 845 were made by Samsung too, it was until Tsmc 6nm (sd 855) when Tsmc had absolute edge over Samsung.

                                    Sam N8 808 owner, 01 May 2025"" However, insiders say that this deal is a show... more7 gen 1 use Cortex A710, no one use those cores and got good efficient soc, what about sd 6 gen 1, 7s gen 2, Exynos 1480, 1580, Exynos 2400 etc are those inefficient and overheat too?

                                      Anonymous, 01 May 2025Is there any samsung made SOC working efficiently I think the Exynos1480 was stable enough...also the 7sgen2 was made by Samsung but i never heard anything bad about it...still for the efficiency and stability the TSMC remained unparalleled compared to Samsung nodes

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                                        Anonymous, 01 May 2025Is there any samsung made SOC working efficiently SD 820 until 845 used Samsung fab.
                                        And recently, Exynos 1580 is pretty good for a midrange SoC tbh.

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