Samsung to exclusively make Qualcomm Snapdragon 830 chips: report

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SEOUL (Reuters) – Tech giant Samsung Electronics will be the sole contract manufacturer for Qualcomm’s next high-end Qualcomm Snapdragon chips, South Korea’s Electronic Times reported on Wednesday citing unnamed sources.

The paper said Samsung will make Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 830 mobile processors using 10-nanometre production technology, adding that the South Korean firm agreed to use the processors in half of its next update of the Galaxy S smartphone that will launch in 2017.

Samsung said in January it was the sole manufacturer of the predecessor Snapdragon 820 chips – a deal that some analysts said at the time was worth more than $1 billion.

Samsung did not immediately comment on the report, and Qualcomm could not be immediately reached for comment.

(Reporting by Se Young Lee; Editing by Richard Pullin)

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