Samsung boosted it foundry business with a win from Qualcomm to produce mobile application processors for low-end 5G smartphones, Yonhap News Agency reported.
The South Korean smartphone and chip vendor was tipped to make 5G versions of Snapdragon 4-series processors, which Qualcomm revealed last week [1] and are scheduled to appear in commercial devices early in 2021.
Yonhap News Agency noted Samsung lags in the foundry sector, citing TrendForce data predciting the vendor would achieve a 17.4 per cent share of the market in the current quarter compared with an anticipated 53.9 per cent for market leader TSMC.
If the report is accurate it would be a big boost for a Samsung strategy to beef-up its System LSI and Foundry businesses. In April 2019, it announced plans to invest KRW133 trillion ($112 billion) [2] over 11 years in its System LSI and Foundry businesses.
Yonhap News Agency noted Samsung recently lined up orders to produce next-generation processing units for Nvidia and data centre chips for IBM using its 7nm technology.
[1] https://www.mobileworldlive.com/featured-content/top-three/qualcomm-reveals-latest-5g-silicon-open-ran-play
[2] https://www.mobileworldlive.com/asia/asia-news/samsung-pumping-cash-into-chips
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