Samsung adds Nvidia, Qualcomm and IBM to its 3 nm customer list, despite abysmal yieldsSamsung is making substantial investments in order to overtake TSMC and eventually become the world’s largest foundry by 2030.A recent report published by Naver suggests that Samsung’s 3 nm nodes currently suffer from very low yields that do not exceed 20%, prompting the tech giant to explore production output improvement solutions through US-based company Silicon Frontline Technology.These problems, however, did not stop Samsung from signing 3 nm production contracts with large companies like Nvidia, Qualcomm and IBM, as reported by Korea Economic Daily.Rather than utilizing the first gen nodes with yield problems, Samsung is most likley to offer the improved stepping to produce Nvidia’s upcoming GPUs along with IBM’s advanced CPUs, Qualcomm’s smartphone / mobile PC SoCs and Baidu’s AI accelerators for cloud data centers.Knowing that TSMC usually provides better yields, Samsung's new 3 nm contracts could be terminated abruptly if its big customers jump ship."