Samsung didn’t launch a successor to its Exynos 2200 chipset that powers last year’s Galaxy S22 phones in some markets, including Europe. There have been a few rumors about an Exynos 2300, but those didn’t materialize. Perhaps because the company decided to go all-in with Snapdragon on the Galaxy S23 series. However, that doesn’t mean the Korean behemoth has stopped working on new in-house flagship chipsets. Industry insiders are saying that the Exynos 2400 is already in development.
Noted tipster Ice Universe, who has an excellent track record with Samsung leaks, is claiming that the Korean firm is developing the Exynos 2400 with a ten-core (deca-core) CPU configuration. They say the chipset will feature one ARM Cortex-X4 prime core, two Cortex-A720 high-frequency mid-cores, three Cortex-A720 low-frequency mid-cores, and four Cortex-A520 efficiency cores (via). There’s no information on the CPU clock speeds and the rest of the setup, such as the GPU.
Deca-core processors aren’t new in the smartphone space. But they are rare. The current-gen smartphone chipsets are all octa-core solutions. Qualcomm’s next-gen Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, which should be competing against the Exynos 2400, employs the same ARM CPU cores but in an octa-core setup. Samsung is curiously going for a deca-core configuration with its next-gen solution after taking a one-year break. Hopefully, the changes will bring good fortune to the Exynos brand.
Samsung likely won’t use the Exynos 2400 in the Galaxy S24
Samsung developing the Exynos 2400 doesn’t necessarily mean the chipset will power the Galaxy S24 series. The company may be looking to sell the new flagship processor to other brands, such as Xiaomi, OPPO, and Vivo. It is essentially the Korean firm’s System LSI division in question here. Samsung’s smartphone division operates independently. The former is making the Exynos 2400 and will compete against MediaTek and Qualcomm in the flagship smartphone SoC market.
Samsung’s smartphone division, meanwhile, is expected to go all-in with the next-gen Snapdragon in the Galaxy S24 series. It should once again team up with Qualcomm on a special version of the chipset optimized specifically for Galaxy. The Galaxy S23 series gets an exclusive version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 with a higher-clocked CPU and GPU. Early benchmark results of the phones are already suggesting a massive performance boost from last year.
According to industry rumors, Samsung will continue using a special Snapdragon in its flagship phones for as long as it doesn’t develop in-house solutions. No, not System LSI’s Exynos processors. The company’s smartphone division is working on its own chipsets. We don’t know what those would be called. Meanwhile, if the latest report is accurate, we should hear more about the Exynos 2400 in the coming months. The chipset may arrive in late 2023 or early 2024.