According to Taiwanese media outlets including DigiTimes, Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong reportedly led a senior executive team on May 21 in a discreet visit to the headquarters of MediaTek, where they met with MediaTek Chairman Ming-Kai Tsai and CEO Rick Tsai, among other top executives. One of the key objectives of Lee’s trip was reportedly to secure chip foundry orders from MediaTek.
The report says Samsung is preparing an aggressive strategy to improve its chances in the competition for orders. Specifically, Samsung is said to be offering MediaTek preferential access to Samsung’s memory chip supply for the development of next-generation Dimensity mobile platforms, in exchange for foundry business.
This strategy of bundling memory supply advantages with foundry services mirrors Samsung’s earlier approach with Qualcomm, where it leveraged smartphone-related chip procurement to attract Qualcomm as a foundry customer. [Icsmart, in Chinese]
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