It may take Qualcomm a year to catch up to Samsung's Exynos 2600

Qualcomm's first chip using 2nm fabrication process, similar to that of Samsung's Exynos 2600, may arrive next year.

Samsung’s next flagship chipset for mobile devices, the Exynos 2600, which the brand may use for the Galaxy S26 series, is said to be made on Samsung Foundry’s 2nm fabrication process. That gives it an edge over its direct rival, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, an SoC that the Galaxy S26 could also feature in a few regions around the globe, which is being made on TSMC’s 3nm fabrication process.

Well, it looks like it may take Qualcomm a year to catch up to Samsung.

On Weibo, a popular tipster, Digital Chat Station claims that Qualcomm’s next flagship chipset for mobile devices, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, which the brand may launch next year, will be made on TSMC’s 2nm N2P fabrication process, putting it on par with the Exynos 2600. TSMC’s N2P will be a more refined version of N2, providing a 5% performance uplift.

For many years now, Samsung has been using Qualcomm’s chipset for the Galaxy S series. Considering that, it is possible that it may use the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 for the Galaxy S27 series. The tipster also claims that the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 will support up to LPDDR6 memory and UFS 5.0 storage, and suggests that it could be a very costly SoC.

Abid Iqbal Shaik - Writer

First Samsung device: Galaxy S II

I’m a computer science engineer living in Hyderabad, India, who has a keen interest in automobiles and consumer electronics. My journalism career kicked off in 2017 with MySmartPrice where I wrote news, features, buying guides, and explanatory articles about technology among other things, and reviewed many products, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, PC components, smartwatches, audio devices, wearables, and smart home products. Since then, I have worked for 91Mobiles, Apple, and Onsitego, before finally landing on SamMobile.

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