Looking to create a separate and more powerful chip set designed for its flagship Galaxy S series phones, a report states that Samsung will copy Apple when it comes to chip production. Apple designs its Series A chips for the latest and greatest iPhone models and improves them every year (more on that later). The South Korean manufacturer reportedly created a Dream Team to design a dedicated Galaxy S chipset.
According to a report by Naver of South Korea (via SamMobile), Samsung is so focused on designing these dedicated chips that it will not produce new high-end Exynos chips in 2023 and 2024. This means that the Galaxy S23 and Galaxy models S24 would use a Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset in all markets. Currently, the latest Exynos chip set is used on the latest Galaxy S phones every year, except in the US, Canada, Taiwan, and China (in these countries the phones run the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset).
Next year’s Galaxy S23 line could be powered worldwide with a Snapdragon chipset
If the Naver report is correct, all Galaxy S23 and Galaxy S24 models will be powered by Qualcomm in 2023 and 2024. There was another time when Samsung changed things and it was in 2015 when the Snapdragon 810 went having a problem with overheating the Galaxy. Line S6. As a result, Samsung used the Exynos 7 Octa to drive Galaxy S6 models to countries that were used to getting silicon designed by Qualcom. As for the iPhone, it is reported that Apple will reuse the A15 Bionic chips used in last year’s iPhone. 13 and give a new name to this year’s non-professional iPhone 14 models. For example, Apple might use the A15 Bionic for these phones and call it the A16 Bionic. These chips would be manufactured with the same 4 nm process node as the A15 Bionic.
The iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max are supposed to be powered by the new name A16 Pro Bionic, built with the 3 nm process node, allowing more transistors to fit inside the chip, allowing it to be more powerful and energy efficient.
The chipset designed by Samsung will not only be designed for use on the Galaxy S line, but could also be built for the company’s folding phones. One problem is that Samsung Foundry is currently having a problem with the low performance of its 3nm and 4nm chips. It was recently discovered that only 35% of chips built by Samsung with its 4 nm process node were able to pass quality control.
This compared to the much better 70% yield rate achieved by TSMC for the 4 nm node. The performance gap cost Samsung Foundry some Qualcomm business that went to TSMC.
Samsung’s goal is to send an extremely powerful chip for the Galaxy S25 in 2025 that could be updated every year for the upcoming Galaxy S phones. The chip would also work with the Galaxy Z (foldable) phones.