{"id":184,"date":"2022-03-19T17:55:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T15:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/samsung-claims-that-yields-from-its-5-nm-foundries-are-improving\/"},"modified":"2022-03-19T17:55:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T15:55:24","slug":"samsung-claims-that-yields-from-its-5-nm-foundries-are-improving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/samsung-claims-that-yields-from-its-5-nm-foundries-are-improving\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung claims that yields from its 5 nm foundries are improving"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"source-title\">Samsung claims that yields from its 5 nm foundries are improving<\/div>\n<div class=\"source-text\">\n<div id=\"review-body\">\n<p>At the recent shareholders meeting the CEO of the Samsung Devices Solutions division Kyehyun Kyung reported that the company\u2019s foundries are improving the yield rates for advanced process nodes.<\/p>\n<p>The executive explained that each new node brings higher complexity, so improving the yield rates requires time, but didn\u2019t offer any specific details.<\/p>\n<p>The company didn\u2019t officially confirm it, but the yield rate for the 5 nm node, the one used for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, is reportedly only 35%. This makes Qualcomm\u2019s flagship chipset expensive and difficult to produce. Samsung\u2019s own Exynos 2100 is fabbed in the same foundry. <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-row clearfix\">&#13;<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"javascript:ShowImg2(&quot;news\/22\/03\/samsung-5nm-yields\/popup\/-1000x1000m\/gsmarena_001.jpg&quot;);return false\" href=\"#\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Samsung's path to 5 nm\" width=\"315\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/22\/03\/samsung-5nm-yields\/popup\/-315\/gsmarena_001.jpg\"\/><\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"javascript:ShowImg2(&quot;news\/22\/03\/samsung-5nm-yields\/popup\/-1000x1000m\/gsmarena_002.jpg&quot;);return false\" href=\"#\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Samsung's path to 5 nm\" width=\"315\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/22\/03\/samsung-5nm-yields\/popup\/-315\/gsmarena_002.jpg\"\/><\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n<br \/><span><strong>Samsung&#8217;s path to 5 nm<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Samsung is also reportedly lagging behind TSMC in sub-5 nm yield rates. This may cause Qualcomm to switch foundries for 3 nm chips. Apple has probably already reserved a significant portion of TSMC\u2019s 3 nm capacity for future Apple A and M chipsets and it\u2019s not the only one (e.g. AMD is working on 3 nm Zen CPUs).<\/p>\n<p>There is talk that the switch may happen as soon as this year &#8211; reliable leaksters are reporting that  Qualcomm will shift part of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 production to TSMC later this year (and that the new chips will be marketed under the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1+ name).<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitimes.com\/news\/a20220317PD211.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"source-image\">https:\/\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/22\/03\/samsung-5nm-yields\/-952x498w6\/gsmarena_000.jpg<\/div>\n<div class=\"source-link\">https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/samsung_claims_that_yields_from_its_5_nm_foundries_are_improving-news-53627.php?rand=119<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung claims that yields from its 5 nm foundries are improving At the recent shareholders meeting the CEO of the Samsung Devices Solutions division Kyehyun Kyung reported that the company\u2019s foundries are improving the yield rates for advanced process nodes. The executive explained that each new node brings higher complexity, so improving the yield rates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}