Qualcomm is in talks with Samsung to produce a new generation of chips using Samsung's 2nm process. This was confirmed by Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon at the CES 2026 event held last week. If Samsung is chosen, it will be the first flagship Qualcomm has manufactured by them since the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 four years ago.
The talks with Samsung are a step to give Qualcomm a choice, especially with TSMC's fabrication plant capacity being used by NVIDIA and Apple. For Samsung, Qualcomm is an important customer to restore the profitability of its fabrication business, which has been severely affected by the pandemic.
Samsung is believed to have successfully solved the issues of thermal management and low chip production rates that were issues with its previous 3nm technology. Last year, Samsung Semiconductor managed to secure a contract worth 22.76 trillion won (~RM 70 billion) from Tesla for its fabrication plant in the United States.
