Qualcomm CEO is moving through Seoul on a tight schedule, sitting down with executives from both Samsung and SK Hynix in what is shaping up to be one of the more significant chip industry visits amid the 2nm generation.

Cristiano Amon landed at Gimpo Airport on Monday and got straight to work. The headline meeting is with Han Jin-man, president of Samsung’s Foundry Business Division, as reported by Korean outlet KEDGlobal.

Heads of Qualcomm and Samsung Foundry are deep in discussions about manufacturing the Snapdragon chip on the latter’s 2nm process node.

Qualcomm CEO Amon actually announced at CES 2026 in January that talks had started and design work was already wrapped. If it closes, Qualcomm’s cutting-edge orders come back to Samsung after five years away.

Samsung’s yield and thermal performance numbers have apparently moved enough to rebuild trust. That $16.5 billion Tesla deal signaled to the whole industry that Samsung Foundry could handle serious volume on serious nodes.

There’s the TSMC factor, because wafer prices there aren’t getting financially favorable. Splitting production between suppliers is exactly the kind of cold, calculating move Qualcomm’s procurement team lives for.

Well, Amon skipped a meeting with TM Roh, who runs Samsung’s mobile business and is one of Qualcomm’s biggest Snapdragon customers.

This visit is about fabs and memory, not phones. The smartphone relationship is already locked in. What Amon came to Seoul to sort out is the next five years of chip architecture

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