Samsung Still Considering Exynos 2500 for the Galaxy S25

A few days ago, MediaTek launched the flagship Dimensity 9400 chipset. Qualcomm recently followed with its answer, the Snapdragon 8 Elite. Both processors are rumored to power Samsung’s Galaxy S25 series, with the Ultra likely to run Snapdragon globally. Meanwhile, the Korean firm doesn’t seem to have given up on its in-house Exynos 2500. It still hopes to produce enough units to ship the new flagships with this chip in some markets.

Samsung may still ship the Galaxy S25 series with its in-house Exynos 2500

Samsung has already confirmed that the Exynos 2500 is in development, though the company has shared very few details. Korean media says the new chip has a poor yield rate. The Exynos 2500 is based on a 3nm process, and Samsung’s foundry division has been struggling to achieve a stable yield. Despite months of effort, the company has yet to make significant improvements, raising concerns about the chip’s timely mass production.

However, Samsung hasn’t abandoned the new Exynos. Industry insiders say it is still testing the chip, hoping to make it ready for the Galaxy S25 series. Since the Exynos 2500 is an in-house processor, it helps reduce the manufacturing cost. The company would be desperate to make it happen. In the meantime, rumors are rife about Samsung potentially switching to MediaTek’s Dimensity 9400 as the alternate chip option for the new flagships.

Ideally, Samsung would want to use as few third-party processors in the Galaxy S25 series as possible to save costs. But if the Exynos 2500’s poor yields force it to look elsewhere, the Dimensity 9400 is a good choice because it costs notably less than the Snapdragon 8 Elite, aka Snapdragon 8 Gen 4. It remains to be seen if the new Samsung flagships will feature all of these chips, only two of them, or exclusively run the Snapdragon 8 Elite worldwide.