Samsung is reportedly going to replace AMD’s GPU with its own in-house variant starting with the Exynos 2600 in 2026.
The Exynos 2500 chipset should be unveiled this year and if things go as planned, it will be the first Samsung application processor (AP) to be produced by Samsung Foundry using its second-gen 3nm process node. It also could be more efficient than the competing Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 because the latter SoC will be manufactured by TSMC using its second-gen 3nm node (N3E). Samsung Foundry is a year ahead of TSMC as it uses Gate-All-Around (GAA) transistors on its 3nm silicon, something that TSMC will not use until it starts producing at 2nm next year.
Using GAA technology now makes the Exynos 2500 SoC more efficient than the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4. With GAA transistors, horizontal nanosheets are stacked vertically allowing the gate to touch the channel on all four sides which reduces current leakage and improves the drive current resulting in superior electrical signals that pass through and between the transistors.
