Qualcomm hopes to launch the Snapdragon 8 Gen1 Plus early this year
At the Snapdragon Technology Summit late last year, Qualcomm officially launched a new generation of the Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, Snapdragon 8 Gen1. According to Qualcomm’s introduction, Snapdragon 8 Gen1 uses Samsung’s 4nm process and uses a 1+3+4 triple-cluster architecture. It consists of one Cortex-X2@3.0 GHz, three Cortex-A710@2.5 GHz and four Cortex-A510@1.8 GHz, and is equipped with the Snapdragon X65 5G baseband.
Qualcomm will continue its past strategy on the Snapdragon 8 mobile platform and launch the Plus version of the flagship SoC. According to Wccftech, Qualcomm hopes to launch Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Plus early this year to replace the existing chip, and there are probably other reasons for doing so. Earlier reports pointed out that the Snapdragon 8 Gen1 is facing mass production problems, and the yield problem of Samsung’s 4nm process has disappointed Qualcomm very much. Qualcomm doesn’t have much choice but to stick to Samsung’s 4nm process. After all, in terms of TSMC, Apple has already taken the lead in occupying production capacity, and TSMC needs to give priority to fulfilling these orders.
In fact, there have been multiple reports last year that Qualcomm plans to reallocate orders for high-end Snapdragon chips to TSMC. As the world’s largest wafer foundry, TSMC has long been overloaded and its production capacity is very tight. However, TSMC also squeezed out some of its production capacity last year, using the 6nm process to produce chips for the Snapdragon 778G mobile platform for Qualcomm. This SoC is similar to the Snapdragon 780G produced by Samsung using the 5nm process and belongs to the mid-range product.
