With the release of the Galaxy S23 series in February, the lineup became the first one in quite a while to be purely powered by Qualcomm chipsets. In the past, the Galaxy S series would feature a variant powered with Exynos chipsets, which would be sold in Europe and a few other regions.
This change was not made out of the blue, as the Samsung-developed Exynos chipsets were struggling to keep up with the Qualcomm ones, creating a situation where one variant of the same series was overwhelmingly superior to the other one in terms of performance and cooling. It is expected that the Galaxy S24 series will also only feature Qualcomm chips. There are also murmurs of Samsung turning in-house, once again.
In a recent report by BusinessKorea, the publication has claimed that Samsung is developing a new in-house chip called the ‘Galaxy Chip’ with plans to debut it in 2025 with the Galaxy S25. To this effect, the South Korean company is reportedly ramping up development with two new teams being developed; namely, ‘AP Solution Development’ and ‘Mobile Experience(MX) Division’
Furthermore, the company is also looking further forward, with plans going beyond 2025 whereby another new team has been tasked to develop new in-house CPU cores that do not rely on designs from ARM.
To lead this new team, Samsung has reportedly turned to Rahul Tuli, who has experience developing CPUs at AMD. If the plan goes as expected, Samsung will have the new CPUs ready in 2027 and will use them in smartphones, laptops and tablets.
What is interesting, however, is that Samsung has now come forward saying the report by BusinessKorea is not accurate.
“A recent media report that Samsung has established an internal team dedicated to CPU core development is not true. Contrary to the news, we have long had multiple internal teams responsible for CPU development and optimization, while constantly recruiting global talents from relevant fields,” says Samsung in a statement sent to Sammobile.
Samsung’s statement indicates that it might continue using ARM’s CPU cores in its yet-to-be-released smartphones for the foreseeable future. However, there is the possibility the biggest companies in the space are not seeing eye to eye as ARM have reportedly made changes to its licensing terms preventing OEMs from making changes to its stock designs
