Samsung Galaxy S23 Series To Reportedly Ditch Exynos Chips Altogether In Favour Of Qualcomm

For some time now, Samsung has been utilizing its personal in-house Exynos chipsets – alongside Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs – in its Galaxy sequence of smartphones. However, if the newest report is to be believed, Samsung may very well be ditching Exynos chips altogether for its upcoming Galaxy S23 lineup. This would mark the tip of an period with Samsung foregoing the apply of manufacturing the identical handset with two variants utilizing region-specific chipsets.

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1. Qualcomm will possible be the only real processor provider for Samsung Galaxy S23 (vs. 70% cargo proportion for S22) because of the subsequent flagship 5G chip SM8550 made by TSMC 4nm.

— 郭明錤 (Ming-Chi Kuo) (@mingchikuo) July 8, 2022

As per famend analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Samsung is prone to energy the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S23 sequence with Qualcomm chipsets alone. This can be the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC – which is able to make its debut in November 2022. In the previous, the corporate would use each Snapdragon and Exynos SoCs in its flagship telephones and the mannequin you bought would depend upon the place you lived. 

Samsung Galaxy S23 sequence processor  

As talked about earlier, business insider Ming-Chi Kuo has stated that Qualcomm would be the sole SoC provider for the Galaxy S23 sequence of smartphones. In impact, the flagship Samsung Galaxy S-series gadgets will not be region-dependent from 2023. The Galaxy S23 telephones will reportedly home the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC in all markets. This Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (SM8550) is predicted to make its debut in November this 12 months and we might begin seeing gadgets undertake the SoC as early as December 2022. 

The Samsung Galaxy S23 sequence is predicted to launch in January or February 2023 although. The indisputable fact that the S23 sequence will possible solely home Qualcomm SoCs may very well be met with a sigh of reduction by these within the European and Asian markets. This is as a result of the Exynos variants of the Galaxy S sequence of telephones have had a popularity of all the time being inferior to their Snapdragon counterparts, when it comes to efficiency and battery life.

Kuo additionally prompt that the S23 sequence could not undertake the Exynos 2300 chipsets made by Samsung since it might’t compete with the SM8550 “in all aspects”. He additionally added that this resolution might additional cement Qualcomm’s dominance within the Android smartphone market.

Despite this, some stories nonetheless declare that Samsung’s flagship in-house SoC – the Exynos 2300 – remains to be being developed with the codename Quadra. There isn’t any affirmation to date, however we might probably see this chipset in Samsung’s Flip and Fold sequence of foldable smartphones.