Samsung Galaxy S25 benchmark. | Image credit – Geekbench
If even the lowly S25 won’t ship with an Exynos in the home turf, then all hope is lost, and we may only see the Exynos 2500 in a phone at a much later date, perhaps as far out as the Galaxy Z Fold 7 even, since the S25 slim is said to come with Snapdragon 8 Elite, while the S25 FE may don a MediaTek Dimensity 9400 chipset.
What led to all this drama were the reports that Samsung will only be ready with the desired quantity and quality of Exynos 2500 processors in the first half of 2025 as opposed to the last quarter of this year, as previously thought.
Qualcomm is the reason that Samsung’s mobile chipset supply costs went way above $8 billion last year for the first time, as 20% of its phone manufacturing costs now go to the processor, so it wanted to mix Exynos with Snapdragon for the S25 to no avail.
