Mobile chip maker Qualcomm announced the X24 chip, the industry's fastest transfer rate, on the eve of the World Mobile Congress (MWC), using a 7-nanometer FinFET process that integrates the X24's Snapdragon 855 ) The handset chip will also be available in the 7nm FinFET process at the end of this year. Industry insiders pointed out that Qualcomm now, the next two years 7-nanometer LTE chip foundry orders have been won by TSMC, the second half of next year's trial production of 5G chip is the choice of Samsung 7-nanometer EUV process. rur860

Although this year's MWC conference, 5G is the market's hot spot, but the 5G business schedule is about 2020, so today, next two years 4G LTE will still be the mainstream technology of smart phones. Qualcomm on the eve of the launch MWC X24 data chip, the transfer rate of up to 2Gb per second, can be said that at this stage the strongest LTE data on the chip. Qualcomm also announced the X24 chip will be used 7-nanometer FinFET process production, industry sources pointed out that TSMC is the only foundry foundry. maz3091

Qualcomm's 7nm X24 data chipset features support for up to seven Carrier Aggregation (7xCA) technologies and is the world's first Cat. 20 LTE modem chip capable of supporting up to 20 LTE streams concurrently, which equals a reasonable utilization All spectrum resources provided by carriers. Qualcomm will be demonstrating the X24 transmission at the MWC conference with equipment vendors or telcos such as Telstra, Ericsson, Netgear and others.

Although Qualcomm launched the Snapdragon 845 mobile phone chip late last year, using Samsung 10-nanometer process, but with the X24 data chip officially launched, the new generation of Qualcomm equipped with X24 Snapdragon 855 mobile chip will be unveiled before the end of this year, The same TSMC 7-nanometer process chip. The Snapdragon 855 platform in addition to the fastest transfer rate in the world, will also strengthen the artificial intelligence and camera digital signal processor (ISP) and other computing functions, do not rule out the third generation of ultrasound screen fingerprinting.

Industry sources, as the global 5G norms and standards have not been fully finalized, 5G to enter the commercial point of time falls about 2020, so now, the next two years Qualcomm's main battlefield is still 4G LTE market. Although Qualcomm and Samsung announced the cooperation recently, Qualcomm 5G chip will use Samsung 7-nanometer EUV process, but the trial production time should fall in the second half of next year. From this point of view, Qualcomm today, 4G LTE chips in the next two years to full speed into 7 nm, foundry orders almost always won by TSMC.

TSMC capital expenditures this year range between 105 to 11 billion US dollars, the primary investment project is to pull the fastest production capacity of 7 nm. TSMC already has 10 7-nanometer chips to finish the design-tape (tape-out). Before the end of this year, more than 50 7-nanometer chips will finish the design. In addition to Qualcomm's 7-nanometer order returning to TSMC, the second quarter includes Apple, Seven-nanometer orders from Xilinx, AMD, NVIDIA and Hisilicon will also begin mass production. It is no wonder that Zhang Zhongmou, chairman of TSMC, said in a few days ago that at this stage, TSMC has reached 100% market share at 7nm.