The Samsung Galaxy S25 may have a major AI advantage over the iPhone 16
AI is the big buzzword at the moment, both in the world of smartphones and in the wider tech world. It’s the latest battleground in which smartphone brands are starting to compete, and it’s something where the rumored Samsung Galaxy S25 line could have an advantage over the iPhone 16 series.
This is evident from a message on the South Korean site Ajunews (through WCCFTech), which states that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chipset is expected to power many of the top Android phones of 2025 (including likely some Samsung Galaxy S25 models), possibly supporting faster RAM than the A18 Pro chipset we expect in the iPhone 16 line.
Specifically, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 may support LPDDR6 (Low-Power Double Data Rate 6) RAM, which isn’t available yet, but standards for it will reportedly be finalized this year, and it will likely go into mass production this year.
That’s probably too late for the iPhone 16 series that we expect to launch in September. But the site claims there’s a chance Qualcomm will support it with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, meaning phones could potentially ship with this RAM from late this year or early 2025.
The site only says this is a possibility, so Qualcomm might not support this until the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 (in which case Apple could take the lead, as the A19 Pro, which will likely land first, is reportedly LPDDR6 RAM will support ).
Faster and better – especially for AI
But this RAM must at least be a lot faster and more efficient than the current generation of RAM, which will benefit on-device AI tasks, among other things. In other words, smartphones could potentially do more AI heavy lifting without relying on the cloud or an internet connection.
Right now, many of the AI features of the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S24 and Google Pixel 8 require internet, meaning you can’t use these features if there’s no internet, and they can sometimes be slow to run. And since this refers to data being sent to the cloud, there may also be privacy concerns.
So being able to perform more AI tasks on devices could be a big upgrade, and could also expand the overall capabilities of smartphone AI.
The Samsung Galaxy S24 already has much more AI skills than the iPhone 15, and if the Galaxy S25 has LPDDR6 RAM, it will likely beat the iPhone 16 in AI skills. But Ajunews sounds unsure if this will happen or if we will wait until the next generation of chipsets for this feature. Either way, the brand that gets it first could have a real advantage.