In the past year, NVIDIA suffered from TSMC problems with the level of usable product manufactured under 28-nm technology. Qualcomm company also complained about the contractor and threatened to transfer the orders to the power of other contract manufacturers.
Now that the situation has improved, and offensive to a segment of the Chinese processors manufacturers for mobile devices makes Qualcomm look for ways to reduce production costs, the company is determined to transfer the power of orders on other contractors - for example, globalfoundries. Last expressed interest in expanding the list of customers, and therefore offers competitive prices for their services. Now Qualcomm is one of the largest TSMC customers, ordering the release of each quarter at least 170 million of processors. The transfer of even orders Qualcomm to power other contractors could hit the financial indicators TSMC.
In turn, Qualcomm has to look for ways to reduce the cost of production of its processors to fight for a place in emerging markets, which are gaining ground MediaTek and other ambitious players.