The week where the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 and Dimensity 9500 will officially be announced by Qualcomm and MediaTek, respectively, has started, and while we talk about their specifications and a multitude of changes in detail, the price tag was a subject left untouched, until now. Apparently, TSMC has not offered a discount to leverage its newer 3nm ‘N3P’ technology, with a report stating that the semiconductor manufacturer’s customers have had to pay up to 24 percent more for their SoCs.

MediaTek reportedly paid a higher sum than Qualcomm to use TSMC’s 3nm ‘N3P’ technology; Apple’s name also mentioned in the report, but no details are present

Despite the newer manufacturing process offering fewer benefits like delivering a 5 percent performance bump at the same power consumption, and o

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