More reports are piling up in support of Samsung possibly planning to revive the Exynos chipset for the Galaxy S24 series next year. Or, at the very least, that Samsung is planning to release the Exynos 2400 SoC, regardless of whether or not it will use it for its next-gen flagship phones.
A new report (via @Tech_Reve) citing TrendForce suggests that Samsung will build the Exynos 2400 SoC on a 4nm LPP (Low Power Plus) process and reiterates that the SoC will feature 10 CPU cores.
Samsung's biggest challenge is thermal and power consumption
Nothing is set in stone just yet, but according to the latest rumor, Samsung's biggest challenge in developing the Exynos 2400 SoC has to do with power consumption and thermal issues. The company is trying to keep energy requirements low while making sure that the Exynos 2400 SoC has a good thermal design.
And because of these challenges, somehow, the report estimates that the Galaxy S24 series will not use as many Exynos 2400 SoCs and that the proportion between Exynos and Snapdragon chips will lean a lot more toward the latter. Once again, nothing's confirmed, so take this with a pinch of salt. The Exynos 2400 may exist but whether or not it will be used by the Galaxy S24 is still a mystery.
Other rumors say that the Exynos 2400 SoC has 10 CPU cores, including 1x Cortex-X4 primary core, 2x Cortex-A720 high-frequency cores, 3x Cortex-A720 low-frequency cores, and 4x Cortex A520 energy-efficiency cores.
In addition, Samsung may plan to utilize FoWLP (Fan-out Wafer Level Packaging) for the Exynos 2400, which is a method for enclosing all of the integrated circuits in a smaller footprint.
As for the Galaxy S24 series, an educated guess would be that Samsung may unveil it in January-February 2024 and consist of three variants: a base, a Plus, and an Ultra.
