There are still a few months to go before the Samsung Galaxy S24 phones are expected to break through, but the leaks and rumors continue – and the latest batch of unconfirmed updates concerns the chipsets in these smartphones.
According to South Korean outlet The Electric (through 9to5Google), Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon has said his company will supply chipsets for the “majority” of Galaxy S24 handsets that go on sale next year.
That sounds a lot to us, like many of these phones will use the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, and the rest will be equipped with Samsung Exynos 2400 chips. However, Amon also said that the top model Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra will only use Qualcomm processors.
Samsung has often used a mix of Snapdragon and Exynos chips in previous Galaxy S ranges, although the Samsung Galaxy S23 phones all use Qualcomm silicon. It looks like Samsung’s own processors will make a return this year – possibly in the handsets sold in Europe, as previously rumored.
Custom chips
There’s one more detail we can explore here, which is that the Galaxy S24 handsets could very well get a custom version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 – a version that’s slightly different from the chipset fitted to the rest of the best Android phones launched in 2024.
According to tipster Yogesh Brar (through Android Authority), there will be a custom ‘for Galaxy’ version of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, which could be released to other manufacturers sometime later in 2024 as a ‘Plus’ variant of the chip.
Although the main core of this custom chip is overclocked, the two performance core clusters and the efficiency core clusters are both slightly underclocked, which is strange. Brar does say that the processor will be optimized for better AI performance (we expect AI to be a big focus on the Galaxy S24 phones).
This special collaboration between Qualcomm and Samsung also happened with this year’s Galaxy S23 phones, so it doesn’t come as a big surprise. Everything should be revealed early next year, with the latest leaks pointing to January 17 as a possible launch date for the Samsung Galaxy S24 series.