Samsung Says It's First in the Industry to Start Doing This

Tech giant #Samsung Electronics SSNLF 5.56% said on Monday its system chips business has started mass production of semiconductors using 10 nanometer technology, adding it was the first company in the industry to do so. Samsung said in a statement a tech product launching early next year will use chips made with its 10-nanometer production technology without specifying the device

South Korea’s Electronic Times reported this month that Samsung will be the sole contract manufacturer of $Qualcomm ’s  QCOM -0.78% high-end $Snapdragon 830 chips using 10-nanometre production technology and these processors will be used in half of Samsung’s next Galaxy S smartphones expected to launch in early 2017.
http://fortune.com/2016/10/17/samsung-system-chips-semiconductors/

Samsung Electronics to make Qualcomm Snapdragon 830 chips: Electronic Times

Tech giant #Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) will be the sole contract manufacturer for #Qualcomm Inc's (QCOM.O) 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.
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN12501R