The rumour mill has certainly been going wild over leaks surrounding the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S26 series. In flux is the presence of an S26 Edge, which may have been scrapped despite having completed development. But even the chipset the generation of phones will get is no longer set in stone. A recent report indicates that the South Korean tech giant may be using its own Exynos 2600 chip instead for the lineup, at least in certain markets.
Korean news site Hankyung claims Samsung will use Qualcomm chips for the base and Plus models in the US, China and Japan. Elsewhere, notably its own home market and Europe being mentioned specifically, it will use the Exynos 2600 instead. As for the Ultra, the report is less certain. The report reads “the industry is paying attention to whether the flagship product ‘Ultra’ will also be equipped with Exynos”. At least, according to machine translation of said report.
The report also cites internal Samsung testing, which claims that the Exynos 2600 has six times the NPU performance of Apple’s A19 Pro. CPU and GPU performance were also 14% and 75% higher, respectively. Against the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, the Exynos performs 30% and 29% better on NPU and GPU respectively.
All this is quite the development over reports from earlier in the month. In case you missed it, reports at the time claimed that Samsung will itself be involved in the manufacturing of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chips. Granted, this would be for the Galaxy Z Flip8, which comes in the second half of the year. It may be a sign that Samsung is confident with the yield rate of its own chip making process.
(Source: Hankyung)
