Samsung released its flagship Galaxy S25 series smartphones at the beginning of the year, which were supposed to run on its own Exynos 2500 chip. However, due to difficulties in manufacturing this chip, Samsung decided to use the competing Snapdragon 8 Elite in all versions of the Galaxy S25. In turn, the development of the Exynos 2500, according to rumors, continued and now information has appeared that this chip will appear in the company's folding smartphones, or rather in the Galaxy Flip 7.
According to the Sammobile portal, citing its own sources, Samsung is preparing to release a new foldable smartphone Galaxy Flip 7 with a proprietary Exynos 2500 processor on board. Previously, Samsung used only Snapdragon chips in all its foldable smartphones, but now it seems that it has decided to change its approach. At least for the Flip 7 model, since the Galaxy Fold 7 will most likely be released exclusively on the Snapdragon 8 Elite.
According to sources, the Exynos 2500, which has received the model number S5E9955, will be available in the Galaxy Flip 7 for most regions, including Europe, while the US, China and Canada will get the Snapdragon 8 Elite model. One reason for this choice could be cost savings, as Samsung will be able to reduce production costs by using its own chip. There is also a version that the Exynos 2500 is better suited for the Flip 7, as it will run cooler in a thinner body than the Snapdragon chip.
According to the latest data, the Exynos 2500 is built on the second generation 3nm Samsung Foundry process. It has a 10-core processor with a Cortex-X925 main core clocked at 3.3GHz, an AMD RDNA 3.5-based Xclipse 950 GPU, and 16MB of L3 cache.
The Galaxy Flip 7, like the Galaxy Fold 7, is expected to be unveiled in July. We'll find out soon whether the new rumors about the Exynos 2500 chip will be confirmed.