Summary
- Samsung may use Exynos chips in all models in the Galaxy S27 line.
- The rumor indicates that the change may depend on the performance of the S26 generation, which would feature the Exynos 2600 chip.
- The information indicates that this chip will be manufactured using a 2 nm process, with a ten-core CPU and Xclipse 950 GPU.
Samsung can equip the Galaxy S27 line models exclusively with Exynos processors, manufactured in-house. The main motivation for the change would be the advancement in the development of the company’s 2 nanometer (nm) technology.
The rumor comes even before the launch of the S26 family. If confirmed, it would also mark the complete return of Exynos to the South Korean brand’s Ultra devices, something that hasn’t happened since the Galaxy S22 line.
Exynos across the board
The speculation arose after a comment by professor emeritus at the Faculty of Semiconductors at Gachon University, Kim Yong-seok, to the South Korean outlet ChosunBiz.
According to the academic, Samsung’s semiconductor division would be making significant progress in the design and yield rates of its 2 nm process. This advancement would allow Exynos chips to be used in all S27 series devices, including the Ultra.
For this to happen, however, Samsung would first need to validate the performance of the upcoming Exynos 2600 chip, expected for the S26 line. Rumors still differ: some point out that the processor will only equip the S26 and S26 Plus models, while the S26 Ultra would use the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5.
The South Korean agency Yonhap suggests that the manufacturer could equip the entire S26 family with the same chip. The move would align Samsung with its competitors: Apple, Google and Huawei also use their own processors in their high-end devices.
Most powerful chip
Rumors so far indicate that the new Exynos 2600 could be built on Samsung’s 2nm process, featuring a ten-core ARM C1 series CPU and an Xclipse 950 GPU, based on AMD’s RDNA architecture.
Preliminary information indicates that the chip has demonstrated a substantial performance leap, with the neural processing unit (NPU) potentially superior to that of Apple’s A19 Pro. GPU performance would have surpassed that of the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 in some benchmarks.
With information from PhoneArena
Source: https://tecnoblog.net/noticias/samsung-pode-usar-apenas-chip-exynos-no-galaxy-s27/
