At this week's CES exhibition, Cristiano Amon, CEO of Qualcomm, disclosed to the media that Qualcomm had promptly commenced discussions with Samsung Electronics about utilizing Samsung's state-of-the-art 2-nanometer process for foundry production. At present, the objective is to expedite commercialization, with the design phase already concluded. This development indicates that Samsung is poised to regain Qualcomm's foundry contract for its cutting-edge chips after a five-year absence. The inaugural order might entail shifting the production of the Snapdragon 8 Elite processor—currently fabricated using TSMC's 3-nanometer process—to a 2-nanometer process.
