Samsung next week intends to storm foundry, but at this time the whole spread of Samsung's 7-nanometer process due to the progress of the development behind TSMC, it may therefore lose the orders of large customers Qualcomm.
Nikkei quotes industry sources on Friday, reporting that TSMC is expected to get back some of Qualcomm's modem and processor chip orders, which will put Samsung on the starting line before the start of 2018.
Reported that Qualcomm partner TSMC, plans to launch a new modem chip in the first half of next year.In addition, Qualcomm developed the next generation of Snapdragon 855 mobile processor, by the end of next year by the TSMC surgeon, and may use the most advanced 7 nm Process.
Snapdragon 835, 845 mobile processors are produced using Samsung 10-nanometer process, but Samsung can not catch the mass production of 7 nanometers in 2018, is the main reason for the loss of Qualcomm orders, but if the Samsung volume production in 2019 7 nm , Qualcomm may still be able to turn back the order to Samsung.
Samsung dominate the memory market, but the foundry is eating big turtle.According to research firm TrendForce report released late last month estimated that the global wafer foundry revenue will come to 57.3 billion US dollars, of which TSMC market share of 55.9%, steady Took the lead, Samsung is far behind, the market share of less than 8%, ranking fourth.