Samsung won't use own chip or RAM inside Galaxy S25: Qualcomm Snapdragon, Micron LPDDR5 instead

Samsung's next-generation Galaxy S25 smartphones are expected to see the South Korean firm move into the warm harms of processor competitor Qualcomm, using its new Snapdragon 8 Elite processor over its in-house Exynos 2400.

Not only is Samsung using its competitors' processor but it's also using its competitors' RAM with rumors swirling that the Galaxy S25 smartphones will use LPDDR5 memory from US-based Micron. In some recent Galaxy S25 benchmarks that turned up on Geekbench, the chip inside has a single score of 2986 points and 9355 points in multi-corer results.

The chip inside of the Galaxy S25 tested had its first 6 corers clocking in at 3.53GHz, while the other 2 corers clocked at a faster 4.47GHz. The information from the Geekbench run show Samsung's next-gen Galaxy S25 smartphone running a Qualcomm Arm-based processor (at least for the international model), while the international model of the Galaxy S24 used Samsung's in-house Exynos 2400 processor, the new Galaxy S25 is a full shift into the world of Snapdragon chips.

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This could change between now and when Samsung unveils its new Galaxy S25 smartphones later this month once CES 2025 is over, but if it doesn't... well, Samsung might have quietly just killed off using its own Exynos processor in favor of the better offering from Qualcomm.

Samsung Foundry recently lost its bid to make Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 8 Elite 2 processor -- the successor to what is reportedly powering the Galaxy S25 -- to TSMC and its N3P process node.