At present, Qualcomm and Apple are important suppliers of smartphone processors, and their latest flagship processors, Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and A16 Bionic, are produced using TSMC's 4nm process technology. However, surprisingly, Qualcomm's Snapdragon 4 Gen 8 is priced a little higher than the A16 Bionic.
There are many flagship phones released by mobile phone manufacturers on the market equipped with Snapdragon 8 Gen2 processors, and how much does it cost to purchase a Snapdragon 8 Gen2? Recently, some netizens broke the price of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen2.
Netizen Derrick broke the news that a Snapdragon 8 Gen2 is priced at $160 (equivalent to about 1134 yuan), and speculated that the expensive price of the Snapdragon flagship SoC may also be the reason why Samsung tried Exynos chips again (in previous years, Samsung's S series flagships were mostly Snapdragon and Exynos dual versions, but the S23 series of 8Gen2 overclocked version, no Exynos version).
The price tag of up to $160 also means that manufacturers of non-Apple flagship smartphones must increase the price of their devices before they can make a reasonable profit.
In addition, according to Nikkei, Apple's A16 Bionic processor costs only $110 each, and although it is more than double the A15 Bionic processor, it is still $50 cheaper than the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor.
However, it should be noted that Apple developed the A16 Bionic processor for its own product use, not to sell to other device manufacturers, and naturally will reduce costs as much as possible to obtain greater profits. And if you assume that Apple has a deal with non-Apple smartphone manufacturers to provide them with the A16 Bionic processor, it is expected that the price may be more expensive than the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor, after all, this will also be another good business for Apple.
The report pointed out that from the price of Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor, Qualcomm is likely to charge a higher price for the next Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor, especially considering that it is expected to use TSMC's more advanced N4P process technology to produce. And it will be able to deliver higher performance without sacrificing power consumption.