Samsung Confirms It Will Manufacture Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 Chipset

One of the best mobile chipsets soon to be available on the market, the Exynos 8890, is manufactured by South Korean company Samsung.

The Exynos 8890's main competitor, Qualcomm Snapdragon 820, will be launched at around the same time and will be included in most of the flagship smartphones released in 2016.

In fact, the Galaxy S7 is said to come with either Samsung's Exynos 8890 CPU or Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 processor, depending on location.

Both chipsets are manufactured using Samsung's 14nm LPP (low-Power Plus) process, the 2nd generation of the company's 14nm FinFET process technology.

This is quite surprising since there wasn't any news about Samsung manufacturing Qualcomm's powerful Snapdragon 820 chipset. Some unconfirmed rumors might have suggested that in the past, but neither company said anything about it.

However, Samsung confirmed the information in an official statement that lists Qualcomm as one of its most important clients.

“With the new 14nm LPP process, Samsung continues to demonstrate its process technology leadership, and unparalleled performance and power efficiency for its Exynos 8 Octa processor and its many foundry customers including Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

“The Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor uses Samsung’s new 14nm LPP process and is expected to be in devices in the first half of this year,” reads the press release.

Important improvements offer higher speed, less power consumption

Samsung's new 14nm LPP processor should provide up to 15% higher speed and 15% less power consumption over the previous 14nm LPE processor thanks to the improvements Samsung had made in transistor structure and process optimization.

Also, the South Korean company announced that the 14nm FinFET process could be considered one of the most optimized solutions for mobile and IoT apps.

“Samsung will continue to offer derivative processes of its advanced 14nm FinFET technology to maintain our technology leadership,” said Charlie Bae, executive vice president of Sales & Marketing, System LSI Business, Samsung Electronics.