We no longer need to speculate about the existence of an Exynos 2600 SoC. Samsung has officially teased the chip, without revealing its specs. That means we may see it on the Galaxy S26 series. This short clip has appeared on the company’s official YouTube channel. Some highlights about Exynos 2600 are shown here.
In the opening of the video, it says, “In silence, we listened.” A few swirling animations in, and the statement transitions to the Exynos 2600’s highlights: “refined at the core” and “optimized at every level”. That’s pretty much it for what the teaser revealed.
Samsung obviously acknowledges the shortcomings of its Exynos 2400 platform. They position these Exynos chips at the same level as the flagship Snapdragon, but never deliver on the promises. And the company is always bashed for it.
We assume the rumored 2nm process node, which the Exynos 2600 is built around, will push it over the top. Its early benchmark scores are pretty close to the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. The latest Samsung flagship phones will likely debut with the Exynos 2600 chip in some countries next year.
It’s been reported by a Korean publication that the chip has been designed by Samsung’s System LSI division and fabricated on Samsung Foundry’s latest 2nm process node. The company will beat Apple, MediaTek, and Qualcomm to the punch with its 2nm fabrication process.
The specs are obviously hidden for now, but there’s a possibility that AMD’s RDNA 4 is used for the integrated GPU. Its CPU hasn’t reached 4.0 GHz clock speeds yet. IceUniverse believes it will be a 3.8GHz processor, but its advantage is 10 cores, which pushed the Geekbench multicore scores to 11,256. This is all we have on the chip so far. We’ll get back to you once we have more details. Keep watching the news for updates.
