Samsung confirms return of Exynos chips on flagships


Samsung needs its Exynos chipsets for use once more in Galaxy flagships. The corporate beforehand signed an exclusivity settlement with Qualcomm.

It’s putting that the assertion doesn’t come from Samsung’s MX (Cell Expertise) division, however was made by the so-called System LSI division. That division is liable for the event of Exynos chipsets and was sidelined with the Galaxy S23. That cellphone solely comes with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 ‘For Galaxy’ chipsets. A 12 months earlier, with the Galaxy S22 sequence, Exynos equipped chipsets for, amongst different issues, the European variants.

Unique to Qualcomm chips

Whether it is as much as the Samsung System SLI division, Qualcomm’s exclusivity on Galaxy flagships will come to an finish subsequent 12 months. “The MX (Cell Expertise) division is a key buyer and goals to develop enterprise with a product vary that may be utilized to all segments of the Galaxy sequence. We’re additionally within the technique of re-entering (of Exynos chips, ed.)”, an LSI CEO stated. fall this week within the rationalization of Samsung’s quarterly figures.

Exynos 2400

With that reply, the CEO answered the query whether or not Samsung needs to modify to Exynos processors with the Galaxy S24. That rumor surfaced at the start of Aprilafter it was beforehand leaked that Samsung needs to make use of Exynos chips for the inexpensive ones Galaxy S23 FE. Particularly, Samsung want to use the Exynos 2400 chipset on the Galaxy S24. Underneath the pores and skin, the chipset incorporates one quick Cortex-X4 calculation core, 5 clean Cortex-A720 calculation cores and 4 energy-efficient Cortex-A520 calculation cores. This may make it the primary cellular ARM chipset with ten CPU cores.

Particulars concerning the return stay obscure for now. The assertion by the CEO does add credibility to earlier rumors. It might be putting if the exclusivity take care of Qualcomm got here to an finish after only one technology of Snapdragon chips. The return might solely apply to a choose a part of Samsung’s markets. This additionally utilized to the Exynos units, which had been solely provided in Europe, Africa, Southwest Asia and the Center East.