Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 leak looks like horrible data
Samsung is also making an unlimited change to subsequent yr’s follow-up to the Galaxy Z Flip 6 foldable flip cellphone, with a model new report claiming the Korean agency plans to maneuver away from Qualcomm chipset used inside the current model in favor of its private Exynos silicon.
Up to now, Samsung has solely used high-end Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs in its foldable telephones worldwide. Nonetheless, the Korean publication Chosun (by means of 9to5 Google) claims that Samsung will flip to the Exynos 2500 inside the Galaxy Z Flip 7 and the Galaxy Z Flip FE. The latter gadget is usually a lower-cost addition to Samsung’s lineup of foldable telephones.
Distinction that with the Galaxy Z Flip 6 that acquired right here out earlier this yr. It runs on the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset, at current Qualcomm’s top-of-the-line silicon.
We now have heard fairly a number of tales all yr that Samsung has struggled to make enough of its next-generation Exynos chip. The Chosun report claims the company has lastly found 3nm processing and succeeded in “stabilizing the 3nm manufacturing yield” at its chip-making providers
“It is true that we have had difficulties in mass manufacturing since we first utilized the gate-all-around (GAA) course of inside the second-generation 3nm foundry course of,” an unnamed Samsung official knowledgeable Chosun. “Now that the strategy has stabilized, it’s only a matter of time sooner than we begin mass manufacturing.”
They added that there was some thought to put the Exynos 2500 chip inside the Galaxy S25 sequence, which is rumored to be arriving subsequent month. However it absolutely sounds from the report that the quantity of Exynos chips is not going to be ample in time for the early 2025 launch. Nonetheless that “will most likely be attainable” to put inside the premium fashions of the Z Flip, which tends to look inside the latter half of the yr.
Samsung has been stopping to restore its foundry enterprise this yr, and we presume that must get Exynos chips out is to chop again the company’s reliance on Qualcomm chips. The model new Snapdragon 8 Elite chip which will vitality subsequent yr’s Galaxy S25 lineup is supposed to be between 20% and 30% costlier than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 system-on-chip.
The Chosun report does not level out if this Exynos setup is for the entire globe or just in certain areas. In earlier years Samsung has put the Snapdragon chip in telephones launched in some components of the world, whereas Exynos-powered telephones arrived elsewhere. Truly, that’s exactly what occurred with the Galaxy S24 and Galaxy S24 Plus earlier this yr.
We now have heard rumors that Samsung would possibly raises the prices of its flagship Galaxy S25 line in its residence nation of Korea, nonetheless it is unclear of which implies elevated prices for the rest of the world.
