Samsung’s Galaxy Z lineup this yr goes to be fascinating for quite a lot of causes. Slated for a July launch, there’s the larger, book-style Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 that’s tipped to get loads of {hardware} upgrades together with a much bigger show and a thinner design. Next, we’ve the Galaxy Z Flip 7, which is claimed to get a smaller share of design updates. Reports additionally trace on the existence of a Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE mannequin, which will probably be an reasonably priced clamshell very similar to the Motorola Razr 50.
Citing a dependable supply, SamMobile states that Samsung’s upcoming clamshell foldable will probably be powered by an Exynos chipset. This can be none aside from the much-rumoured Exynos 2500, which was anticipated to make its debut with the Samsung Galaxy S25 this yr however was held again due to poor yield.
Previous repots hinted at this variation, however a current one additionally identified that the Exynos 2500 would not make it to the anticipated Galaxy Z Flip 7 FE mannequin.
The supply informed the publication that this is able to be a 3nm chip with a most clock velocity of three.3GHz. The SoC has a 10-core CPU and an Xclipse 950 GPU with 16MB of L3 cache. Built utilizing the second-gen 3nm node, in Samsung’s personal foundry, the chipset was lately rumoured [to debut in the second half of 2025]. The information of a Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 that includes the identical chip aligns with older stories, as it’s anticipated to be introduced in July.
According to SamMobile, solely choose markets will get this new processor. The Exynos 2500 SoC is at the moment mentioned to make it to most Samsung markets together with India and South Korea. Whether or not it performs on par with rival chipsets is one thing we are going to discover out when the smartphone is launched, however the Exynos 2400 (4nm) contained in the Galaxy S24 did properly in our assessment, so it would simply be the proper match for a foldable telephone.
If Samsung does launch a Galaxy Z collection smartphone with a home-grown Exynos SoC, it could be the primary time it is doing in order all of Samsung’s foldable fashions have at all times featured Qualcomm chipsets previously.