Chipset war: TSMC vs Qualcomm

The war between the US and China is also a question of silicon.

Some call it the “chip war”, the “semiconductor war” which is an important, fundamental piece of the great battle between East and West for technological supremacy: a clash between “titans” that sees the great high-tech producers play each other their cards in view of the dominance in digital, in 5G mobile networks, in artificial intelligence and therefore in the production of the chips that make all mobile phones and computers work.

The names of the fighters?

Snapdragon (Qualcomm),  Intel, Exynos (Samsung),  A12 Bionic (Apple),  Kirin (Huawei)  which are basically the big, often unknown but powerful, silicon industry.

Qualcomm designs and develops its Snapdragon processors, which are now used in most Android smartphones, while not producing them internally. Over the years, the San Diego-based company has outsourced manufacturing to two of the largest and most advanced third-party foundries in the world, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and Samsung Foundry.