A report from Etnews says Qualcomm wants Samsung Foundry to manufacture a 2 nm SoC for smartphones on its SF2 node. A renowned X leaker states the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 for Galaxy will be manufactured on the aforesaid process, while the regular Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 will use TSMC's N3P node. https://www.notebookcheck.net/Qualcomm-reportedly-approaches-Samsung-Foundry-for-2-nm-smartphone-AP-leaker-says-it-could-be-the-Snapdragon-8-Gen-5-for-Galaxy.802602.0.html
Qualcomm lately is dumbly hunting benchmark numbers, ignoring the rest.
One big core in mobile chips to hunt for that single-core score - no fucks given only one thread will work at that speed.
Only P-cores and zero E-cores in X Elite to hunt for that multi-core score - no fucks given OS and background crap will always run on inefficient cores.
You all write correctly, Qualcomm, like Intel, are turning into stupid cheaters through increased consumption, rather than saving consumption while increasing productivity.
And all this follows from a simple and obvious fact - a dead end in silicon technologies - productivity growth per 1W is continuously slowing down and companies no longer have anything to offer consumers at a qualitatively different level than before.
All that remains are vile schemes of artificial aging and forcing customers to buy things they don't need. And also maximum damage to the planet's ecology for the sake of profit...