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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon “8 Gen 1” salvage operation moves the chip to TSMC
- sylware 4y agoWhy would samsung not "sabotage" the manufacturing of a competitor chip??? All silicium corps competing vs samsung must use TSMC, or samsung would need some kind of extremely strong, international scope, regulation (aka, forget about it). The world really needs more top notch foundries.
- smoldesu 4y agoI... don't really think this is the case. I don't manage supply chains for a living, but I'd imagine most companies place an order for silicon within certain tolerances, and then Samsung delivers that within contract. There's not really a way for them to "sabotage" their chips besides giving them low-binned silicon, which would probably violate their contract and lead to litigation against them. Samsung is a fairly disappointing fab, but a lot of people seem to use them without issues. Nvidia, AMD, Apple... hell, the only company that can't make decent chips with Samsung silicon is Samsung.