We may have just got the official confirmation of an Exynos 2400-powered Galaxy S24 next year. A Samsung executive recently said that it is pushing for the return of Exynos processors to its flagship smartphones. Hyeokman Kwon, Vice President of the DS (Device Solutions) Division at the company’s semiconductor business unit, aka System LSI, revealed the plans during a Q1 2023 earnings call earlier today. The Korean firm hinted at this in its official press release announcing the first quarter financial results as well.
“System LSI will try to re-enter the flagship segment to strengthen the business competitiveness of the mobile SoC business,” Samsung said in its press release. If this wasn’t a strong enough hint, Kwon added fuel to it during the conference call. When pushed if next year’s Galaxy S24 series will come with an Exynos chipset, the System LSI executive said that the Mobile Experience (MX) Division is its major customer and it is trying to find its way back into flagship Galaxy devices.
“The MX division is a major customer and aims to develop business with a product lineup that can be applied to all segments of the Galaxy series. We are also working on re-entry,” Kwon said (via). He added that Samsung is looking to expand its semiconductor business to non-mobile fields such as EVs (electric vehicles) to stay afloat during downtimes in the mobile industry. The company suffered its first quarterly loss from chips in Q1 2023 since 2008 amid a global economic slowdown.
Samsung may ship the Galaxy S24 with the Exynos 2400 chipset
These comments from Hyeokman Kwon come amid rumors galore that Samsung will ship the base Galaxy S24 with the Exynos 2400 chipset in some markets. The plan is to show the world that the company has fixed Exynos’ performance and power efficiency woes. The Korean firm wants to give a real-world demo of its improved Exynos chipsets and try to win back the lost reputation.
Rumors are that the Exynos 2400 will feature ten CPU cores and AMD’s RDNA2-based GPU. It reportedly has four times as many compute units as Exynos 2200’s Xclipse 920 GPU. Samsung will manufacture the new chipset on its improved 4nm LPP+ (low power performance) process node with FoWLP (fan-out wafer-level packaging) packaging technology. All of these improvements should bring a massive performance and power efficiency boost. Early benchmark scores have been promising, but time will tell how the Exynos 2400 stacks up against Qualcomm’s next-gen Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.
2023-04-28 15:07:39