Samsung could have scored an exclusive overclocked version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for the Galaxy S23-series.
The Galaxy S23-series will break the mold of two separate versions, a Snapdragon and an Exynos one, and will be solely powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. Qualcomm's latest chipset was announced just the other day with some really promising improvements over the previous generation. The new chip is 25% faster and 45% more efficient than its predecessor, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, which is certainly giving us an optimistic outlook.
The regular Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 consists of a single prime Cortex-X3 core running at 3.2GHz, two Cortex-A715 and two Cortex-A710 performance cores clocked at 2.8GHz, and finally, three efficiency Cortex-A510 cores running at 2.0GHz. Quite a novel setup that greatly differs from the 1+3+4 setup that made the rounds on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, a chipset with a trove of problems that Qualcomm has to put behind.
Many of those can probably be attributed to Samsung Foundry's own inferior manufacturing process which didn't really cut it and lead to TSMC scoring the lion's pie of the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1, Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, and reportedly, even Snapdragon 8+ Gen 2 chips. All of these rely on TSMC's 4nm N4P process, which seems to be doing wonders for the overall stability and efficiency of the silicon.
Why has Samsung scored such a nifty overclocked version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 that the rest of the Android phone makers will probably only get after the Galaxy S23 has launched? Well, if we could speculate, we'd say that Samsung solely relying on Qualcomm's Snapdragon and foregoing its own line of Exynos chipset is a rather strong leverage to demand a slightly tuned-up version of the chipset as a form of compensation, as Samsung is a particularly large client that definitely can...
Qualcomm is also likely rather unwilling to lose Samsung as a potential partner in the future even though TSMC is currently solidly in favor. After all, the South Korean giant is quite likely about to get out of the rut that its 4nm manufacturing process has created, with undesirably low yield and lots of thermal and performance issues that plagued both the Exynos and Snapdragon chips it produced.
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