Fewer Samsung Phones Could Use a Snapdragon Chip Starting in 2022

At this point, Samsung is selling several of its flagships with either the in-house built Exynos or the Qualcomm Snapdragon, and in the last few years, this approach has caused quite a lot of criticism from customers across the world.

And this is because devices equipped with Snapdragon chips offered substantially improved performance, though they came with very limited availability, which mostly came down to the United States and China.

Everybody else just got the Exynos version of the Samsung high-end models, and given the Snapdragon difference, it meant most people just had to stick with the slower devices.

All-in on Exynos

This is projected to change beginning with 2022, as Samsung is reportedly working around the clock on improving the Exynos chips in a way that would align their performance with the one of Qualcomm chips.

Of course, this is something that each and every one of us will discover once the new Exynos generation goes live, but at this point, Samsung looks very optimistic this will indeed happen.

This is why the South Koreans are reportedly planning to build fewer units equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon chips and more with its very own Exynos. According to estimates, Samsung’s Galaxy lineup could include up to 60 percent phones with Exynos chips, so only some 40 percent would still rely on chips shipped by Qualcomm.

Whether or not this is something that’s going to pay off in the long term depends on the actual performance of the new-generation chip. But worth knowing is that Samsung is planning to use the same approach not only for high-end models, but also for mid-rangers, so the company hopes to score big on several fronts, including not only in terms of phones but also as far as the production of chipsets is concerned.

The next big launch for Samsung is the Galaxy S22 expected to see the daylight in January.