Amid rumors that Samsung will return to the Exynos 2400 for some Galaxy S24 series units, the reason for this move is financial.
Of course, nothing will be official until early next year, and we have a whole summer’s worth of warm weather coming to the Northern Hemisphere which we don’t want to gloss over so quickly, but there have been quite a few tipsters passing along speculation about Samsung’s 2024 flagship series. Some of the most recent rumors include the use of a deca-core Exynos 2400 chipset, 12GB of RAM for the Galaxy S24 and Galaxy S24+, and 16GB of RAM for the Galaxy S24 Ultra. And we could see improved battery life for the latter device.
Perhaps the most interesting of the rumors is the one that says how Samsung will once again call on one of its own Exynos chipsets to power the Galaxy S24 line in some regions. If this rumor is true, and Samsung does develop a deca-core Exynos 2400 that can rival anything Qualcomm puts out there for next year, it will allow Samsung to allocate more of its Galaxy S24 budget toward improving specs.
That’s because it obviously costs Samsung a lot less money to equip a Galaxy S24 series handset with an Exynos SoC than a Qualcomm chipset. ITChosen (via Revengus) notes that by equipping all Galaxy S23 series models with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy chipset, Samsung lost any bargaining power with Qualcomm.
