Before the Snapdragon 8 Gen1 was released, there was news that Qualcomm's Plus version in the second half of the year was to replace the foundry with TSMC, codenamed SM8475.
In the past, Qualcomm only increased the frequency to achieve a small performance upgrade, the replacement of the foundry is still the first time, the reason is temporarily unknown, it is expected to be related to power consumption, the name should be Snapdragon 8 Gen1 Plus.
Industry insiders said that the yield of TSMC OEM is higher than that of Samsung. Taking snapdragon 8 Gen1 Plus as an example, since the third quarter, Snapdragon 8 Gen1 Plus has produced more than 50,000 pieces per quarter, and the current yield has exceeded 70%.
This yield is quite higher than Samsung's Snapdragon 8 Gen1, which is expected to be one of the reasons why Qualcomm chose TSMC.
At present, Xiaomi is preparing a new machine with a model of 2206122SC, which is equipped with Snapdragon 8 Gen1 Plus, which is expected to be listed in the third quarter of this year.
According to the news, at present, Xiaomi has taken the lead in polishing the Snapdragon 8 Gen1 Plus, the sample test CPU main frequency is 2.99GHz, and the GPU has been slightly upgraded, but the architecture has not changed.
At the same time, it has good compatibility with SM8450 (Snapdragon 8 Gen1), which is convenient for terminal post-replacement platform.
And some leakers revealed that in the second half of this year and next year, Qualcomm Snapdragon processors will all be changed to TSMC processes, and the power consumption performance will definitely be better than now.
In addition, Qualcomm has released a new generation of 5G modem Snapdragon X70, which supports 10Gbps 5G peak download speeds, which is expected to be integrated into next year's Snapdragon flagship processor.
