The price of the flagship has risen! Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen4 costs soared

Recently, the microblog platform exposed the latest news about Snapdragon 8 Gen4. Due to the rising cost of TSMC wafers, the price of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8Gen4 also showed a significant increase, indicating that this year's flagship chip mobile phone Will face price increases to varying degrees. It is understood that this cost increase is mainly due to the introduction of 3nm advanced process node, and the application of this technology node has led to an increase in the cost of the wafer factory. Specifically, the increase in the number of EUV lithography tools has significantly increased the production costs of each wafer and each chip.

It is worth noting that Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen4 chose TSMC's 3nm process for manufacturing, and abandoned the public architecture scheme of Arm, instead adopting the Nuvia Phoenix architecture independently developed by Qualcomm. Compared with the public architecture of Arm, Qualcomm's own Nuvia Phoenix architecture shows higher performance advantages.