The setbacks from Samsung’s side for failing to increase its 3nm GAA yields meant that the Exynos 2500 could not be prepared in ample quantities to be used in the Galaxy S25 series, forcing the company to resort to a Snapdragon 8 Elite exclusive launch. While work on the Korean giant’s flagship SoC continues to proceed, Samsung’s head of the semiconductor design business has sent an email to all employees in the LSI division, mentioning how they should share the responsibility and burden of having to develop not just the Exynos 2500, but also the Galaxy S26 family.
The added burden of developing the Exynos 2600 with the Galaxy S26 series launch also falls on the Samsung executive and its employees
President Park Yong-in, the head of Samsung System LSI, the company’s semiconductor design business, recently mentioned in an email to the company’s employees the need to develop a sense of responsibility and loyalty to the division. As reported by Sedaily, the executive expressed the heavy burden of having to mass produce two flagship products at the same time. For those who do not know, he refers to the Exynos 2500 and the Galaxy S26.
According to a previous update, the company was optimizing the chipset, with the Exynos 2500 reportedly arriving in the second half of the year. Like its immediate predecessor, the Exynos 2400, the upcoming SoC is said to sport the same 10-core CPU cluster and will be paired with AMD’s Xclipse 950 GPU that is based on the latter’s RDNA 3.5 architecture. Alongside the Exynos 2500’s development, Samsung is also facing the pressure of having to jumpstart its advanced manufacturing processes to not just secure lucrative customers but also to reduce dependency on Qualcomm to reduce its chipset expenditure.
The Korean foundry behemoth aims to achieve this by working on a new Exynos chipset codenamed ‘Ulysses’ and it would leverage the company’s 2nm GAA technology. Coming to the trial production run, Samsung continues to trail behind TSMC, as the latter previously achieved a 60 percent yield on the 2nm process. Fortunately, Samsung has plenty of time to bridge the gap and its reported yield of 30 percent can pick up in due time.
However, given the firm’s previous mishaps, it is more than likely that it has lost out on Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 orders from Qualcomm, with the chipset expected to be mass produced exclusively on TSMC’s 3nm N3P node. Whether Park Yong-in’s email has a positive impact on the employees’ work ethic, we shall know in the next couple of months.
News Source: Sedaily
About the author: Omar Sohail is a reporter and analyst for Wccftech's mobile section, specializing in the technology and business of the mobile industry. His expertise lies in the intricate hardware supply chain, covering developments in semiconductor manufacturing, chip lithography, and camera sensor technology.
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