You read that wrong: Samsung is ditching Samsung and will rely on Samsung to make Samsung processors

Samsung vs… Samsung? Or, in other words, are we headed for a “split” between Samsung’s mobile division and the processor and chip division of the giant South Korean conglomerate?

Samsung’s Mobile Communications Business (MX) has, for many years, relied on a “sister division” for its mobile phone processors and chips, but that may change. The reason for the Samsung LSI Businesss division that develops the mobile processors (System on Chip – SoC) Exynos.

Already, Samsung’s Galaxy S23 series, which is expected to be presented in February, will “wear”, instead of Exynos, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor in all markets, including Greece.

Meanwhile, South Korean website Elec reports that Samsung has created a chipset development (AP) team within the company’s mobile division. Samsung’s chipset development team is reportedly headed by executive vice president Choi Won-joon. Choi joined Samsung in 2016 from US multinational Qualcomm.

The Samsung System (LSI) division has been designing and producing Exynos for both the mobile phone sector and other customers over the years, such as Meizu and Vivo.

Elec’s sources suggest that the most likely reason for setting up a chipset development team within the mobile division would be to develop its own smartphone processors for Galaxy devices, without having relations with the LSI sectoras sources with knowledge of the matter pointed out on the website.

This will not be the first time we hear that Samsung has ambitious plans for the chipsets it uses in its own devices. In May, reports surfaced that Samsung was working on an ambitious “Galaxy-exclusive” chipset for 2025, and that it would therefore not use the Exynos processors for 2023 and 2024, as they turned out to be inferior to expectations. Samsung has since signed a deal with Qualcomm to use Snapdragon processors globally in its more expensive Galaxy models, starting with next year’s Galaxy S23 series.

An internal chipset development team raises many questions. Will these chipsets still be produced by the other division of the South Korean group Samsung Semiconductor, or could they be produced by Taiwanese multinational semiconductor design and manufacturing company TSMC? Will the new processors still incorporate the graphics technology of the American company AMD? What does this mean for Samsung LSI’s Exynos processors? We’ll have to wait, as Samsung declined to comment on the matter when asked.

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