Samsung with Exynos 7420 success has paved way to other exceptional opportunities in chipset world. Qualcomm, the renowned ever, is now tapping Samsung for its upcoming Snapdragon 820. The current 810 is built by TSMC which produced it to be a bit underperforming.

Qualcomm may knock at Samsung’s manufacturers for Snapdragon 820

Qualcomm rushed to add 64-bit chipsets, which have been using standard ARM Cortex cores instead of the next generation custom chips. Samsung is using the same Cortex-A53 and A57 in its Exynos chipset and it’s getting better results. Also the 14nm manufacturing process is working better than TSMC’s 20nm.

Snapdragon 820 will come with custom Qualcomm’s core. The 64-bit ARMv8 instruction set, those are dubbed Kryo and are expected to power flagships in 2016. Even now the company wills to manufacture cooler-running cores than the ARM designs, it still wants the advantage of the smaller manufacturing process.

Qualcomm also wants back into Galaxy flagships which sells in millions. Exynos saves licensing fee but uses external modem which is expensive than having it integrated into the chipset like Snapdragon designs. Both Samsung and Qualcomm haven’t confirmed of intention like this but this cant’ be good news for TSMC.