Samsung Reportedly Optimizing Exynos 2500 SoC for Late 2025 Launch

[T0@st]

At the end of January, Samsung Electronics released their financial results for the fourth quarter and the fiscal year 2024. Smartphone tech watchdogs paid close to attention to the South Korean giant's accompanying earnings call. The recently released Galaxy S25 smartphone family is, exclusively, powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite chipsets—insiders believe that Samsung opted out of utilizing proprietary chip designs (for this generation) due to missed production goals. Late last year, inside sources pointed to the foundry's allegedly problematic 3 nm Gate-All-Around (GAA) process node. Follow-up reports suggest that Samsung engineers have moved onto developing a 2 nm manufacturing process, possibly linked to a re-designed Exynos 2500 flagship mobile processor.

Brian Ma, a technology industry analyst, extracted relevant information from Samsung's recent earnings meeting—several press outlets have picked up on his brief social media post. The IDC employee stated: "Samsung System LSI just mentioned in its earnings call that it's optimizing Exynos 2500 and 'aiming' to secure design wins for mobile models scheduled for release in 2H" The rumor mill has proposed that new "Galaxy Z Flip 7 and Fold 7" smartphone models are currently in the development pipeline—coincidental timing indicates that the two devices could launch later in 2025, potentially with next-gen flagship Exynos SoCs onboard. Tipsters reckon that the Exynos 2500 is configured with a 10-core cluster, and its integrated graphics solution will be an AMD RDNA 3.5-enabled Xclipse 950 model.



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[Daven]

So let's see...

RDNA3.5 iGPU in Smartphones...check
AMD SoCs in handhelds...check
AMD SoCs in consoles...check
AMD SoCs in SFFs and laptops...check

Only thing missing is Radeon discrete graphics in laptops and desktops. It's going to be a hell of a task dislodging Nvidia.

 

[Dave65]

Big changes coming for Samsung.. My little crystal ball never lies!

 

[R0H1T]

Only thing missing is Radeon discrete graphics in laptops and desktops. It's going to be a hell of a task dislodging Nvidia.

Well there's Halo ~ it's the big Nvidia killer specially with their 96(?) GB limit for the IGP especially in this crazy AI world

 

[Neo_Morpheus]

Only thing missing is Radeon discrete graphics in laptops and desktops. It's going to be a hell of a task dislodging Nvidia.

I thought they have them already (780M and 890M)?

But OEMs might be getting some sweet bribes from Ngreedia, just like what Intel used (still?) did with Dell so they would not used AMD CPUs.

 

[kondamin]

what is stopping samsung from going the chiplet/tile route and putting them in laptops so it doesn't matter they aren't on the latest greatest node?

 

[tpuuser256]

I thought they have them already (780M and 890M)?

But OEMs might be getting some sweet bribes from Ngreedia, just like what Intel used (still?) did with Dell so they would not used AMD CPUs.

He meant the cut down versions of their desktop lineup, the 780M and 890 are iGPUs despite being fairly big.
I also think OEMs were bribed

 

[Neo_Morpheus]

He meant the cut down versions of their desktop lineup, the 780M and 890 are iGPUs despite being fairly big.

Hmm, I still think that those two models I listed are that, cut down and dGPU's.
Granted, not too familiar with them so you might right.

I also think OEMs were bribed

Preach it, brother!

 

[Daven]

Hmm, I still think that those two models I listed are that, cut down and dGPU's.
Granted, not too familiar with them so you might right.

The 780M, 880M, 890M, etc are the names of the graphics units (iGPUs) inside AMD APUs.

Great references:

List of AMD Ryzen processors - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units