Samsung needed to pay a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} additional to have the Snapdragon 8 Elite energy the Galaxy S25 line
Samsung needed to pay $400 million to make use of the Snapdragon 8 Elite AP throughout your entire Galaxy S25 lineup. | Picture credit-Qualcomm
The rationale that yield is so vital is that the determine is a share exhibiting what number of usable dies have been created towards the utmost quantity that may be diced from a silicon wafer. Samsung Foundry was rumored to have a 30% yield for manufacturing utilizing the identical course of node earmarked for the Exynos 2500. A low yield will increase the variety of faulty dies and reduces the variety of usable ones. Because of this, not solely does the worth for working chips rise, at a yield of 30% it was doable that Samsung wouldn’t be capable to construct sufficient chips to cowl the quantity it wanted.
An enormous change to the Exynos 2600 AP’s configuration is rumored
One other level to think about is that tweet from tipster @OreXda would not point out the effectivity of the Exynos 2600. Because of this, it’s a chance that so as to obtain the excessive mjlti-core benchmark outcomes, the chipset had to make use of an unrealistic quantity of energy, definitely greater than the element can be fed if used to drive the Galaxy S26 line when the telephones are launched throughout Q1 subsequent 12 months.
An attention-grabbing change within the configuration of the Exynos 2600 AP was talked about by @OreXda. Initially designed with 10 cores (giving it the “decacore” designation), the tipster says that the Exynos 2600 will function two Cortex Prime “X” CPU cores together with six Cortex-A cores. That might make the Exynos 2600 an octa-core AP.
If Samsung Foundry would not enhance its yield, Samsung must think about using the Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 for Galaxy to energy the entire fashions within the flagship sequence with Qualcomm’s flagship processor. The telephones will not be launched till subsequent January or February however due to lead occasions, Samsung must resolve by the tip of this 12 months whether or not yields are adequate (60%-70% and better is required) to permit Samsung Foundry to fabricate sufficient Exynos 2600 SoCs to energy the Galaxy S26 and Galaxy S26+ items in all markets aside from the U.S., China, and Canada. In these international locations, the Galaxy S26 and Galaxy S26+ can be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 for Galaxy AP.
