For the longest time, Samsung has always released the Galaxy S series with two variants for different regions of the world, one powered with a Qualcomm chipset and the other with their own in-house chipset, Exynos.
However, probably due to the Exynos chipsets having less than favourable performance in the Galaxy S22 series, Samsung has launched the new Galaxy S23 series with only the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset regardless of the region with no mention of Exynos SoCs.
Ice Universe, a reliable tipster has put forward news that this might not last for long as the South Korean company is working on the Exynos 2400, a new chipset from the company which will move from the octa-core architecture of the past and adopt a new architecture featuring 10 cores consisting of 1x Cortex-X4 + 2x Cortex-A720 (higher frequency) + 3x Cortex-A720 (lower frequency) + 4x Cortex-520.
Now, he does not claim that the new Exynos chipset will be fitted to the Galaxy S23 series as they are already out in the wild, nor will they be fitted to the next foldables from Samsung as they have always been powered by Qualcomm chipsets. The clue is in the name of the chipset, the S21 series was powered by the Exynos 2100, and the S22 series with the Exynos 2200 making it clear that next year’s Galaxy S24 series will be the prime candidate to rock the new 10-core chipset.
Taking a look at Samsung’s competitors in the chip business, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 from Qualcomm has 8 cores featuring a prime core based on the ARM Cortex-X3 architecture and clocked at up to 3.2 GHz for 64-bit applications while Apple’s A16 bionic chip has a 6-core chipset with 2 cores at 3460 MHz and 4 cores at 2020 MHz.
It is important to note that more cores do not necessarily translate to better performances, especially when comparing chipsets developed on different architectures, as demonstrated by the A16 bionic chip from Apple against the best chips from Snapdragon which feature more cores.
