According to the latest news, Samsung has begun mass production of Exynos2500, but because the company has still been unable to expand the 3nm GAA yield, the supply of this chipset is limited. A new report claims that Samsung can only produce about 5,000 Exynos 2500 units per month, suggesting that the chipset may only be available for a single model.
Information about the progress of the Exynos 2500 was released by TheBell, and the tipster @Jukanlosreve provided details that Samsung will start the testing phase of the SoC in March. Since the foundry giant has yet to find a solution to overcome its poor yield rate (said to be below 50%), only a small number of products can leave the factory.
Other details indicate that monthly production of the Exynos 2500 is around 5,000 units, while Samsung's smartphone shipments run into the millions, so it's possible that only one smartphone ends up using the chip. Earlier, the same tipster also mentioned that the upcoming Galaxy Z Flip 7 will be equipped with Exynos 2500, and also shared some specifications of the SoC. Apparently, Samsung's flagship chipset will share the same 10-core CPU cluster as its predecessor, the Exynos 2400.
AMD will once again cooperate with Samsung to provide a new Xclipse950 GPU based on RDNA3.5 architecture. Unfortunately, while these details look impressive on paper, they prove quite the opposite in benchmark testing. In the previously leaked Geekbench6, the single-core and multi-core performance of the Exynos 2500 was lower than that of the Snapdragon 8 Elite, indicating that Samsung may be right not to include it in the flagship lineup.
Instead, the company can price the Galaxy Z Flip 7 relatively competitively, avoiding the Snapdragon 8 Elite, so that the company can recoup some profits from foldable phone sales.