Samsung received Qualcomm chip manufacturing commissioned plans to expand SoC business

Qualcomm (QUALCOMM) has officially announced that the choice of South Korea's Samsung Electronics as a new chip manufacturing commissioned by the manufacturers. Semiconductor foundry has not yet announced the details of the contract, the two companies will be Samsung's 90nm after the process of cooperation.

No factory of semiconductor manufacturing business groups in the United States FSA (Fabless semiconductor Association): "no processing semiconductor manufacturers, factory sales top ten semiconductor business department without Qualcomm (QCT:QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies) has been recently ranked first. In 2005 4 to new sales in the top ten rankings, QUALCOMM accounted for about QCT of the total sales of about $8.1% in the company to join the company in June. Ranked second in the U.S. Bradcom accounted for about 6.5%, the gap is obvious.

In addition, Qualcomm's recent quarter sales of $912 million (2005 - 7 ~ September), accounting for about the company's total sales of about $58%. The company supplies about 40 million chips in the quarter.

The sector's strong demand for chips, in the news release, QUALCOMM QCT President Sanjay K., said: the signing of the contract with Samsung aims to adapt to the expansion of the CDMA/WCDMA market, Jha." Samsung followed the United States after Intel ranked second in the world's semiconductor manufacturers, but its drawback is that the high proportion of memory operations.

For example, Samsung Semiconductor sector in 2005 7 ~ September sales of $4 trillion and 590 billion won, of which about 76% of the memory business, up to 3 trillion and 470 billion won. The SoC (system LSI) business sales accounted for only about 12% of the semiconductor, a total of 550 billion won. Samsung hopes to accept Qualcomm's commission to expand SoC business. In the press release, Samsung system LSI business President Wu Xuanquan (Oh-Hyun Kwon) commented on this.