A flagship Qualcomm Snapdragon chip is the go-to choice for all the brands making foldables, even Samsung, which has its very own chipset foundry Exynos. Qualcomm has a monopolistic grip on the foldable industry, and rightly so based on consumer sentiment. Samsung, however, wants to rise above it by introducing Exynos to Galaxy Z Flip 7.
TheElec publication from Korea reported a leak that says Galaxy Z Flip 7 will debut with an Exynos 2500 chip. If you’ve been following the news lately, this report also corroborated the claims of a high-ranking Samsung official talking about Exynos’ involvement among Samsung foldables.
From what we hear in the news, Exynos 2500 will enter the production phase in early 2025. Samsung has already drawn up plans to manufacture 229.4 million phones, foldable or otherwise. 3 million units (1% of the planned production) will account for Z Flip 7, and Z Flip FE might follow with at least 900,000 units at 0.4%.
We’ve heard rumors that the Exynos 2500 is a 10-core chip that trades blows with the Snapdragon 8 Elite. Samsung used its newer SF3 3nm node to manufacture it and the peak frequency it can achieve is 3.3GHz. The rest of its cores are divided into 2.75GHz, 2.36GHz, and 1.8GHz clusters, integrating with the Xclipse 950 GPU.
Some Chinese foldable makers have avoided the Snapdragon chips, using Mediatek as an alternative, and it’s great to see Samsung landing in the arena with its own Exynos build for Galaxy Z Flip 7. As far as consumer sentiments are concerned, Qualcomm remains the first preference for a big majority.
