The Cost of Flagship Chips with N3E Process Skyrockets, New Flagship Products to Be Released

TapTechNews September 30th news, according to the blogger @DigitalChatStation's revelation today, the cost of this generation of flagship chips using the N3E process has skyrocketed by about 20%±, the procurement cost of D9400 is about 155 US dollars (TapTechNews note: currently about 1084 Chinese yuan), and the procurement cost of SM8750 is about 190 US dollars (currently about 1328 Chinese yuan).

Among them, the chip with the code name D9400 is Dimensity 9400, and the chip with the code name SM8750 is expected to be named Snapdragon 8 Gen4 or Snapdragon 8 Elite. The blogger exposed the specific parameter information of the two processors in the middle of this month, and TapTechNews summarizes and compares them for everyone as follows:

According to UDN's report in July this year, Qualcomm plans to use TSMC's 3-nanometer N3E process in the fourth-generation Snapdragon 8 processor, and at the same time, the Oryon self-developed core replaces the previously used ARM CPU core, which leads to the need for the company to increase the product price to recover the relevant costs.

The MediaTek Dimensity 9400 conference officially announces that it will be held at 10:30 on October 9th, and the slogan is AI Core Leap. The Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit 2024 is scheduled for October 21-23, when the Snapdragon 8 Gen4 processor will be released. With the release of these two flagship new products, new Android phones from various manufacturers will also be released one after another.