Samsung made progress this year with the Exynos 2400 AP and might try to save money by using Exynos chips on more phones.
Samsung has been spending more to buy the application processors (AP) it uses on its phones. That’s because Samsung has backed away from using its own Exynos chips and packs more of its high-end phones with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipsets and low-end handsets with MediaTek’s SoCs. Samsung shipped only 13 million Exynos-powered handsets during the fourth quarter of 2023, down 48% from the fourth quarter of 2022. As a result, Samsung took in 44% less revenue from its Exynos chipsets during Q4 2023 year-over-year.
Per SamMobile, Samsung spent $8.87 billion on mobile chipsets in 2023, a 3.1% increase over what Samsung paid for these parts the previous year.
