Qualcomm designs the 10nm geometry server processor, while Samsung develops a 10nm circuitry chip-making technology and put it to commercial production.

Qualcomm, who owns original design architecture of the Centriq 2400, will outsource the fabrication of the chip to Samsung.

Built based on the Korean chip maker’s 10nm Fin-FET chip-making technology and Qualcomm’s design scheme, the new server processor boasts high-performance, better energy efficiency, and cheaper cost than competition.

Samsung Electronics and Qualcomm have been in long-term strategic partnership to develop a wide range of mobile SoC processors.

The two chip maker successfully mass produced a series of mobile processors like Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 using Samsung’s 10nm low power early or LPE process technology and 14nm process technology. The two companies’ years-long strategic alliance culminated in the world’s first commercialization of the 10nm server processor.

Yet it is the first time for Samsung Electronics to fabricate server products in its foundry production lines. The Korean chip maker has mainly produced mobile application processors, image sensors, and modem chips.

Samsung has span-off its foundry business to establish a pure foundry subsidiary company earlier in the year. It aims to expand its presence in the market.

The Korean chip maker successfully developed the second-generation of 10nm chip process technology in April 2017.

Currently, TSMC is dominating the foundry market, followed by GlobalFoundries and UMC. Samsung Electronics is the fourth largest foundry chip maker in the world.