At the end of January, Samsung Electronics released its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2024. Smartphone technology observers pay close attention to the Korean giant's earnings call. The recently released Galaxy S25 smartphone series exclusively uses Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite chip - industry insiders believe that due to failure to achieve yield and output targets, Samsung chose to abandon the use of self-produced chips (in this generation of products).
At the end of last year, insiders pointed out that there were alleged problems with the 3nm all-gate (GAA) process node of Samsung foundries.
Technology industry analyst Brian Ma extracted relevant information from Samsung's recent earnings conference - a brief post he made on social media reported by multiple media outlets. The IDC employee said: "Samsung SystemLSI just mentioned in the earnings call that it is optimizing Exynos2500 and 'targeting' mobile models planned to be released in the second half of the year to ensure design wins."
Rumor has it that new "Galaxy Z Flip 7 and Fold 7" smartphone models are currently in development, and the coincidental timing suggests that these two devices may be launched later in 2025 and may be equipped with the next-generation flagship Exynos SoC.
According to the news, Exynos2500 will be configured with a 10-core cluster, and its integrated graphics solution will be Xclipse950 that supports AMD RDNA3.5.