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Samsung led to the scrapping of all Qualcomm 5g chips, and the Samsung yield accident will affect th

Original title: yield accident in Samsung Foundry: all Qualcomm 5g chips are scrapped source: techweb.com.cn

On August 22, according to the industry chain news, due to the problem of Samsung's 7Nm process yield, the midrange 5g processor Xiaolong sdm7250 handed over by Qualcomm to Samsung was scrapped. These 5g chips were originally planned to be launched in the first quarter of next year. The Samsung yield accident is likely to affect the release rhythm of Qualcomm.

This problem occurs not only in Qualcomm processors, but also in Samsung's own processors, which may slightly affect customers' confidence in the adoption of Samsung's 7-nm process.

However, Qualcomm's 5g processor is expected to be shipped in the first quarter of 2020, and Samsung still has the opportunity to remedy and solve the yield problem. Even if the yield is low at that time, it is estimated that it can still reach the level of a small number of shipments and will not be completely unable to supply.

As far as the wafer factory is concerned, it is not the first case that there is a yield problem leading to scrapping in the process of new product development, and there is not only a single supplier in the market, so it has little impact on the 5g mobile phone demand market. Samsung's problem only makes it possible to change the proportion of competitors in the market, which may affect the supply of Qualcomm 5g processors, making competitors including MediaTek further grab the market.

Previously, it was reported that Qualcomm plans to launch a cheap 5g chip, which will lower the price of 5g mobile phones of domestic mobile phone manufacturers to 3000 yuan. For mobile phone manufacturers such as Xiaomi, oppo and vivo, which have cooperated with Qualcomm for a long time, if the yield problem of Qualcomm's 5g chip is not solved, it may affect its layout of 5g mobile phones.