Qualcomm plans to charge manufacturers more money for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset.
Several rumors say that Samsung will revert back to its old way of deciding which application processor will power next year’s flagship line in different markets. As it did prior to this year, in the U.S. and China, the latest chipset from Qualcomm, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy, might be found under the hood of the , +, and Galaxy S24 Ultra. Just about everywhere else, Samsung would use its homegrown Exynos 2400 SoC.Why would Samsung bring back Exynos chips for the vast majority of its flagship units?
But why would Samsung even consider this considering that powering every Galaxy S23 model with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has gone off quite swimmingly for the manufacturer? The answer, like much in life, might have something to do with money. A post on the Chinese social media site Weibo by tipster Digital Chat Station (via Wccftech), who does have a decent track record, reveals that Qualcomm is going to be asking more for each chipset for Galaxy than the $160 it charged Sammy for the Galaxy 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy SoC. Back in June, another tipster pointed out that by using the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 on all units regardless of the region where they were shipped, Samsung lost any leverage it had with Qualcomm over pricing. But if it uses its own Exynos 2400 SoC on the vast majority of Galaxy S24 series handsets, Samsung might be able to get away with raising the amount of RAM on the flagship models’ basic configurations, hike the minimum storage on the to 256GB from 128GB on the , keep prices the same, and still make some money.
