In that scenario, the 30% price hike for the Galaxy 8 Gen 4 AP plays an important but limited role. But what would happen if Samsung decided to do away with the Exynos 2500 SoC, and all Galaxy S25 series models were powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 AP regardless of market? You can imagine how much a 30% price hike for the chipset might impact pricing of the flagship line in that scenario. But that won’t happen, will it?
Kuo now says it might. Pointing out that this will be the first year that the Exynos application processor will be produced using Samsung Foundry’s 3nm process node, there is a good chance that Samsung Foundry’s poor yields at that node will mean that there will not be enough Exynos 2500 APs produced to satisfy Samsung’s demands, As a result, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 SoC might need to be employed on every Galaxy S25 series unit.
