Note 10 coming with a new 7nm Exynos, Samsung making the Snapdragon 865, too

Samsung's processor foundries missed one production cycle of the flagship Snapdragon 8-series processor but their new and superior extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography has won the hearts of Qualcomm's management for Snapdragon 865, it seems.

Korean media is reporting that Samsung is in advanced negotiations with Qualcomm to produce the next-gen Snapdragon 865 system chip with the 7nm EUV method, and production is likely to start towards the end of the year. While Samsung skipped the first 7nm generation that TSMC built Apple's A12 and the Snapdragon 855 chipset with, it has ...