This will "please" the village idiot Arlen. Now Samsung and Oppo will
be using "TMSC silicon" too ...

Samsung and Oppo Seek to Rival iPhone A-Series Chips
With Custom Designs and TSMC Fabrication
----------------------------------------------------
Samsung and Oppo are planning to transition to custom silicon
chips to rival Apple's A-series chips in the iPhone, according
to recent reports.

Earlier this year, Chinese smartphone brand Oppo launched its
first custom silicon chip, the MariSilicon X image processor,
in the Find X5. Now, the company's chip design team is
developing an application processor (AP) and an entire custom
System on Chip (SoC) for future Oppo devices, IT Home reports.
Like Apple's custom silicon chips, Oppo is looking to TSMC to
manufacture its chips.

IT Home suggests that Oppo will launch its custom AP,
manufactured with TSMC's 6nm process, in 2023. This will
reportedly be followed by a full SoC, integrating the AP and
modem, manufactured with TSMC's 4nm process, in 2024. The
chips may not be comparable to offerings from Qualcomm and
Mediatek in terms of efficiency and fabrication processes, but
they could be adopted in entry-level mobile products first
before increasing market penetration over time.

Meanwhile, iNews 24 reports that Samsung smartphone chief Roh
Tae-moon told a company town hall meeting that "we will make
an AP unique to the Galaxy." The push toward custom silicon
chips is reportedly being driven by GPS issues and poor thermal
performance caused by the Exynos 2200 chip in Samsung's latest
Galaxy S22 series of smartphones. Samsung hopes that it will be
able to mirror Apple in taking multiple considerations into
account with its custom chips instead simply of putting
performance at the forefront.

The movement is seemingly part of a trend of increasing
ambition from Android smartphone brands to rival Apple more
directly and become the world's biggest smartphone brand, with
Oppo laying out plans to aggressively compete in the high-end
smartphone market and Xiaomi pledging a "war of life and death"
against Apple.

<https://www.macrumors.com/2022/04/07/samsung-and-oppo-seek-to-rival-iphone-chips/>