Samsung and AMD recently extended their licensing agreement for the use of Radeon graphics in Exynos chipsets. While not explicitly explained, this is preparing for Samsung’s next LSI chip, which is tentatively called the Exynos 2500.
The focus with the new design will be on optimization. It’s pretty vague, but AMD already has high-performance hardware – the problem is getting it to scale to smartphone power levels. So the focus will likely be on improving efficiency rather than boosting performance (that said, in a thermally limited smartphone they’re almost the same thing).
Unofficial reports state that Exynos 2500 will be used in the Galaxy S25 generation in a couple of years, next year’s models will still use a Snapdragon chip for Galaxy. In previous generations Samsung was forced to release a new flagship Exynos chipset every year for the new S-series, but now it can take some time to sort things out.
AMD has time to work things out too: The Exynos 2200’s Xclipse 920 was based on RDNA 2, since then RDNA 3 has made its debut. The official goal for the new architecture is 54% more performance per watt, which is exactly what a mobile GPU needs.
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