Parallel with TSMC
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 single-chip system has not yet been presented, but news about the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 has appeared on the Internet. Perhaps it will be cheaper than Gen 4.
The point is that the high price of the upcoming platform is not only due to some desires of Qualcomm. An important reason is that Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 will be produced using the 3 nm N3E process at TSMC facilities, which is expensive.
And now the company has announced that it wants, as it has done in the past, to adhere to the strategy of two manufacturers. In this case, for Snapdragon 8 Gen 5. That is, this SoC can be produced both at Samsung facilities and at TSMC factories.
Of course, Qualcomm has previously said that it would like to return to this format, but in recent years Samsung has lagged significantly behind TSMC in terms of characteristics and the pace of development of technological processes, but should catch up with its competitor in the next year or two, since is investing heavily in the 2nm process.