IIRC, Samsung has ditched Exynos, right? I'm just a little surprised they're teaming up with Qualcomm.

IIRC, Samsung has ditched Exynos, right? I'm just a little surprised they're teaming up with Qualcomm.

I dont think thats the case, Exynos plans have no change, thats just mean that they will continue to product Qualcomm chips in their fundries.

IIRC, Samsung has ditched Exynos, right? I'm just a little surprised they're teaming up with Qualcomm.

Samsung is a chip manufacturer just like TSMC and GloFo. It makes sense for them to produce chips for other companies.

Samsung is a chip manufacturer just like TSMC and GloFo. It makes sense for them to produce chips for other companies.

Agreed, but what doesn't make sense is they'd ditch their own design in favor of teaming up with someone else. That's like Intel giving up on their Core i# series and teaming up with AMD to produce Zen. To my recollection, Samsung considerably more wealthy than Qualcomm, so the analogy is similar.

Agreed, but what doesn't make sense is they'd ditch their own design in favor of teaming up with someone else. That's like Intel giving up on their Core i# series and teaming up with AMD to produce Zen.

They aren't ditching Exynos.

Agreed, but what doesn't make sense is they'd ditch their own design in favor of teaming up with someone else. That's like Intel giving up on their Core i# series and teaming up with AMD to produce Zen. To my recollection, Samsung considerably more wealthy than Qualcomm, so the analogy is similar.

Samsung also produces CPU's for Apple.... as well as other companies. Samsung has multiple departments that (supposedly) operate independent of each other. Samsung chip manufacturing doesn't design CPUs, they manufacture them. Considering how Samsung (supposedly) operates, your comparison doesn't work out. Intel is a single company, with a single goal. Samsung operates as multiple, (supposedly) independent departments within the same company.

Samsung also produces CPU's for Apple.... as well as other companies. Samsung has multiple departments that (supposedly) operate independent of each other. Samsung chip manufacturing doesn't design CPUs, they manufacture them. Considering how Samsung (supposedly) operates, your comparison doesn't work out. Intel is a single company, with a single goal. Samsung operates as multiple, (supposedly) independent departments within the same company.

There's a difference between contracting with other manufacturers and teaming up with them. It becomes weirder if they ditch their own product, but as you stated before, they apparently are continuing to produce Exynos so my initial comment can mostly go ignored.