{"id":234669,"date":"2025-10-30T20:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/234669\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T20:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:39:13","slug":"samsung-promises-faster-performance-custom-chips-and-more-ai-for-the-galaxy-s26-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/234669\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung promises faster performance, custom chips and more AI for the Galaxy S26 series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Samsung just published its financial report for the third quarter and used the opportunity to reveal some details about the upcoming Galaxy S26 series and Samsung\u2019s strategy for Galaxy devices overall.<\/p>\n

The Samsung Galaxy S26 series will \u201crevolutionize the user experience with user-centric, next-gen AI, a second-generation custom AP, and stronger performance, including new camera sensors,\u201d said Daniel Araujo, VP of Samsung\u2019s Mobile Experience Division (MX).<\/p>\n

AP stands for \u201cApplication Processor\u201d and is the industry term for chipset. Why second generation, though? While it wasn\u2019t explicitly named, the Exynos 2600 will be the first smartphone chipset made on a 2nm node<\/a>. That\u2019s first gen. Or maybe it\u2019s second gen if you count from the Exynos 2500 that is used exclusively in the Galaxy Z Flip7.<\/p>\n

\"Samsung<\/p>\n

Qualcomm will reportedly dual source some Snapdragon 8 chips and \u201cfor Galaxy\u201d variants<\/a> are expected to be manufactured by Samsung\u2019s foundries \u2013 those would fit the bill of \u201ccustom AP\u201d, so maybe those are the chips that Araujo is referring to. Why not both?<\/p>\n

According to some reports, the Exynos 2600 will be used for all S26 models<\/a> in most regions, while select regions (US, China, Japan) will get the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 version instead.<\/p>\n

\"Samsung<\/p>\n

The final decision hasn\u2019t been made yet \u2013 \u201cthe AP evaluation is still underway, so we can\u2019t yet confirm our next year\u2019s flagship lineup,\u201d said Araujo.<\/p>\n

Other recent chip news claims that the Galaxy S26 series will feature a new Exynos connectivity chip<\/a>, which will handle things like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. That\u2019s not an AP, of course, but it\u2019s still interesting since the Galaxy S25 series uses Qualcomm\u2019s FastConnect 7800 for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth duties \u2013 replacing that may be unrelated to the main chipset. Apple recently introduced the N1 connectivity chip<\/a> on the iPhone Air, which replaced the usual Broadcom offering.<\/p>\n


\n\"Samsung\u2019s<\/a>
\n
Samsung\u2019s outlook for the MX division in 2026<\/p>\n

Anyway, for the coming year, Samsung will focus on AI features for its smartphones, new AI-based health tracking features for its smartwatches, new TWS buds<\/a> while also working to strengthen its position in the foldables market.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a> | Via<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samsung just published its financial report for the third quarter and used the opportunity to reveal some details…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-234669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}