Samsung's 2nm Exynos 2600 chipset is ready for mass production

02 September 2025
We might see it in the Galaxy S26 family next year.

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  • Anonymous
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  • 19 Nov 2025

LOL, 13 Sep 2025There's something I do not understand. If Exynos ch... moreIt's bcoz exynos is exclusive only on galaxy devices :)

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    • Anonymous
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    • 20 Sep 2025

    Vegetaholic, 04 Sep 2025Arrow Lake Laptop CPU's are insane. Super efficient an... moreYou have no idea do you? Intel sucks, that's why they too turned to TSMC. Microarchitecture aside, AMD switching to TSMC is a major reason why they overtook Intel. This ain't the year 2000, clock speed is no longer the metric.

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      • vjv
      • 13 Sep 2025

      There's something I do not understand.

      If Exynos chips are that good or at least competitive and value for money, why don't non-Samsung Android phones use them? Why do they almost always use Qualcomm Snapdragon? Even the newer Mediatek chips are very good, but almost no phone use them.

      What hold does Qualcomm have on them?

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        • vjv
        • 13 Sep 2025

        Doesn't matter which foundry or brand, 2nm is always better than 3nm. Battery life, temperatures, efficiency.

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          • Anonymous
          • 7Xn
          • 06 Sep 2025

          Vegetaholic, 04 Sep 2025Arrow Lake Laptop CPU's are insane. Super efficient an... moreYou have no idea do you? Intel sucks, that's why they too turned to TSMC. Microarchitecture aside, AMD switching to TSMC is a major reason why they overtook Intel. This ain't the year 2000, clock speed is no longer the metric.


            First I believe both Geekbench 6 scores are fake
            The first includes a different architecture from the Exynos 2500 and well below expected figures so why publish it
            The second is better but still a conservative guess with no shown architecture this time

            I admit I was stuck for a while as there was a prediction that Samsung would again use both Qualcomm and its own Exynos for the S26 Range until this article was feasible.

            The split made sense if both Qualcomm and Samsung were releasing the same 3nm SoC, they are not, also the S26 Ultra would be Qualcomm the other S26 Exynos 3nm Ultra 2nm S26 *

            Again these rumours were BEFORE Samsung 2nm which today 05/09/2025 are illogical imo

            This makes more sense to me
            The 2nm Exynos Soc is and will be "superior" to Qualcomm's 3nm. ALL "-1 nm" process changes have so far without exception have done that.

            Samsung with a 2nm Exynos 2600 need not go for the optimal increase now but an increase that would easily place it ahead of what it predicts Qualcomm 2nd Oryon 3nm Soc and Mediatek.

            Both Qualcomm’s Oryon and Dimensity will be 2nm in 2026.
            (Qualcomm’s 2nm may be supplied by both TSMC and Samsung.) Samsung now has 5 months to decide what the S26 split could be..but

            The 2nm process sets the scene for an all Exynos S26 Range, Samsung does not have to pay Qualcomm for a 'slower' 3nm

            I expect at least one "person?" to complain vociferously and repeatedly even if the 2nm Exynos 2600 benchmarks are all above Qualcomm 3nm SoC and Dimensity.

            Not on X (so a completely untamed guess) we could see a 2nm S2600e introduced & being used in the non Ultra S26 device ...or not.


            Indeed I had to Google it Samsung previously supplied SoC to other manufacturers including Vivo..opps
            We will see if this is a return to glory however some manufacturers may be in contracts unbreakable this year and in 2026 everybody will have caught up

            Try this No Exynos no buy!!

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              • Sahyu
              • IWR
              • 05 Sep 2025

              MiguelBain, 03 Sep 2025For comparison! A 6nm TSMC is higher quality than a crappy ... moreSo TSMC 3 nm is worse than their own 4 nm node. Because samsung 3 nm node seems to be better in efficiency than TSMC 3 nm node.

              https://youtu.be/lbfyQACpTaY?si=G-rr3TrBr-mQse7U

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                • Sahyu
                • IWR
                • 05 Sep 2025

                I dont think its a good idea. TSMC's N3P node seems worse in thermals and efficiency.

                  Anonymous, 02 Sep 2025Awesome!!! Exynos is back Hopefully custom CPU and custo... moreQualcomm preparing a red carpet for the new king 🙂

                    Anonymous, 02 Sep 2025They switched to TSMC's N3B node with the latest Arrow... moreArrow Lake Laptop CPU's are insane. Super efficient and very powerful, basically on par with whatever AMD is offering with Ryzons and maybe even slightly more efficient. Problem is they use TSMC foundries and not even close to offers same efficiency as on their own. So indeed Intel at the moment is cooked.

                      Jemek, 02 Sep 2025Long time ago MediaTek was also a trash chip company, look ... moreRight but this is Samsung we're talking about. They don't know how to improve without compromising somewhere else. Even though benchmarks show that the Exynos 2600 performs well, there is bound to be some other issue with it. Overheating, poor stability, bad GPU performance, poor power efficiency, etc. Phones equipped with the e2600 are bound to have one or more of those issues.

                        Anonymous, 03 Sep 2025exynos cant even beat xring 01Hey, that's going a little too far. Samsung can do it but will they actually is the question. Also, Xring 01 isn't without its faults. It has worse GPU efficiency compared to Snapdragon and Dimensity Flagship chips. Its CPU is great though. Still, gotta give credit for Xiaomi for actually trying and doing a pretty decent first gen chip. More competition is good…

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                          • Anonymous
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                          • 04 Sep 2025

                          I'll sit back and wait for result from others then.

                            I'd take 3nm tsmc over 2nm samsung every day of the week. Samsung has made it really easy to choose Qualcomm because they price Exynos equal to Snapdragon.

                            I'd buy Exynos if the price reflected its performance and power consumption. It doesn't, so I won't. The best always deserves a premium. If your chipset performs 10% less the price better be 11-20% lower. Simple!

                              So how much percentage improvement can we expect compared to TSMC 3 and 4nm node??

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                                • Anonymous
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                                • 03 Sep 2025

                                Did they fix the inferior Exynos modem or change it to a Qualcomm/MTK one?
                                Did they found a way to make Exynos deliver the same battery life as Qualcomm phones do?

                                Performance was never really the issue with Exynos. It is an issue, but not something end users will notice and certainly not the reason Exynos became a slur word in the mobile SoC world.

                                Unless Exynos is fully on pair with the Qualcomm version OR Exynos is used globally, without inane exceptions, Exynos has no place in high end phones.

                                Fe and the A series is where it fits based on its track record.

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                                  • Anonymous
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                                  • 03 Sep 2025

                                  Anonymous, 03 Sep 2025Regarding the open source GPU drivers, Man it won't ma... moreEmulators are available on the Play Store.

                                    Jemek, 02 Sep 2025Long time ago MediaTek was also a trash chip company, look ... moreExynos went from ok to trash. But thx for letting us know how young you are.

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                                      • 03 Sep 2025

                                      Xypleth, 02 Sep 2025It probably will only barely reach TSMC. For all foundries ... moreDensity is not all there is in a node, though. That's a pretty shallow benchmark that ends up being fairly irrelevant for general soc design
                                      Though yes lower logic density are why samsung nodes turn out to be worse (somewhere around 5%) in power consumption

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                                        • Anonymous
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                                        • 03 Sep 2025

                                        MiguelBain, 03 Sep 2025For comparison! A 6nm TSMC is higher quality than a crappy ... moreThis isnt how nodes work! Maybe refrain from typing next time.

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