Samsung Reserves Exynos 2500 For Korean Galaxy Z Flip 7 Units Amid Ongoing Production Woes, Yield Rates Still Hovering Below 50 Percent As Snapdragon 8 Elite Powers Global Variants

Samsung is slated to launch the Galaxy Z Flip 7 and the Galaxy Z Fold 7 in July, but this time around, it will mark a significant shift in its chipset strategy. According to a new report, the Korean version of the Galaxy Z Flip 7 will house the company’s custom Exynos 2500 chip, while the rest of the markets, including North America, will feature the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite chip in the device.

Samsung is limiting the Exynos 2500 to its home turf, while global Z Flip 7 units will feature the Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy

Samsung will adopt a two-chip strategy for the Galaxy Z Flip 7, which means that it will be available with an Exynos 2500 chip as well as the Snapdragon 8 Elite chip. If you are not familiar, the Exynos 2500 will be built on the company’s advanced 3nm process, featuring a 10-core CPU configuration with one Cortex-X925 core working at 3.3GHz, two Cortex-A725 cores at 2.75GHz, five Cortex-A725 at 2.36GHz, and two Cortex-A520 cores at 1.8GHz. Coupled with a 16MB L3 cache, Samsung’s chip will deliver a performance-to-watt ratio comparable to Qualcomm’s chip while lowering its production costs.

The company’s cautious but ambitious plans will bring its semiconductor and in-house chips back into the spotlight. The Exynos 2500 chip will deliver enhanced AI performance and efficiency for better battery life, conjoined with an AMD RDNA-based GPU for improved graphics when it comes to gaming. While the company has ambitions to bolster its custom Exynos 2500 chips in the Galaxy Z Flip 7, production challenges are resulting in lower yield rates, limiting the company’s ability to mass-produce the chip.

According to reports, yields are still hovering below 50 percent, which is forcing the company to limit the chip’s use to a single market – its home turf. Samsung’s move is seen as a strategic test run, as the company can closely monitor the performance of the chip in the South Korean market. Moreover, the company will also assess the public perception of the chip and its performance while improving production scalability before expanding the market of the Exynos 2500 with the Galaxy S-branded handsets.

For the rest of the world, Samsung will use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite chips, which will ensure top-tier performance and consistency in terms of efficiency. On its home turf, Samsung is determined to prove that Exynos is back and better than it ever was. If the company approves the performance of the chips and other aspects, it will have better control over the hardware and software aspects of the devices, something that Apple mastered a long time ago.