Samsung Electronics has apparently acquired an order from a identified chip designer, Qualcomm Applied sciences. The previous shall be making 5G chipsets for smartphones for the latter and develop cell software processors (AP) for finances 5G enabled handsets.

In response to a Korea Herald report, an business supply near the matter that the South Korean tech large managed to safe this order because it plans on elevating its presence in the foundry business. Because the 5G chips are meant for finances smartphones, Samsung will possible be making the subsequent Snapdragon 400 collection processors for Qualcomm. These chips are anticipated to hit the market someday by subsequent yr.

Moreover, varied OEMs like Xiaomi, Oppo, and Motorola have reportedly selected utilizing these Qualcomm chips for his or her upcoming choices. Samsung has been acquiring main orders in current occasions, so acquiring extra for 5G chips isn’t that far fetches. The corporate is even at the moment serving to NVIDIA manufacture its subsequent gen RTX 3000 collection graphics card, which was introduced earlier this month.

For these unaware, Samsung is the world’s largest reminiscence chip maker as effectively, though, it trails behind TSMC in the foundry business. Reviews have estimated that the corporate has a 17.four % market share in the worldwide foundry market, whereas TSMC dominates with a 53.9 % market share. Though, we will anticipate Samsung to claw for extra grounds in the sphere with its steady funding inside its personal semiconductor capabilities.

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