Samsung has started mass production of the Exynos 2700, and it'll be the chip powering the upcoming Galaxy S27, S27 Plus, and S27 Pro in South Korea and Europe. Production is up more than 10% from last year to make room for the new Pro model, and the company still hasn't decided whether the S27 Ultra gets it too.
Samsung is betting bigger on its own chip this year
South Korean outlet The Elec reported that Samsung has started mass-producing the Exynos 2700. The chip will power the Galaxy S27 series in some regions when the lineup launches early next year.
Production is up more than last year's Exynos 2600 because of the new Galaxy S27 Pro. Until last month, Samsung's Mobile Experience (MX) division hadn't settled on how many S27 phones would use their chipset.
It has now locked in the numbers, and production has moved into full wafer runs. While you may be thinking cookies, the wafers are simply the thin silicon discs that the company prints its chips onto.
Each wafer holds hundreds of Exynos 2700 chips, which get cut apart, tested, and packaged before they go into a phone. A wafer would normally take three to four months to become a finished chip, which lines up with an early 2027 launch.
The regional split matches the S26 series. Phones sold in South Korea and Europe get the Exynos 2700, while the U.S. and China get Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 series.
Also, the S26 Ultra used Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 in every market. But it seems Samsung is divided this year. The System LSI division designs Exynos and wants the chip in the Ultra to prove it can compete at the top. However, the MX division has the final say, and has been weighing the performance, heat testing, and cost of Exynos against Qualcomm's chips.
If Samsung skips Exynos for the Ultra, it will likely use the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 because of its stronger AI and graphics performance. That aside, the company seems pretty confident in its chip.
In an internal Geekbench 6 test, the Exynos 2700 reportedly scored 9.5% higher in multi-core than the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. Qualcomm's chip scores 4,308 in single-core and 12,856 in multi-core, which puts the Exynos 2700 above 14,000 in multi-core.
Those dollar-sign-backed figures are only going up from here
Of the many leaks to surface about the S27 series, leaker Lanzuk's is among the most concerning. It hints at a bigger price increase than in previous generations, given the current tight memory market.
If you haven't heard, NAND storage and RAM prices are rising, and they're expected to climb further into next year. According to the leak, Samsung can no longer absorb those costs and some S27 models will also use the newer and pricier LPDDR6 RAM.
The extra increase will reach the high-130,000 won range, which works out to roughly $95 to $100, though the exact figure depends on the exchange rate. Earlier leaks from SammyGuru pointed to the S27 Ultra costing up to $200 more than the S26 Ultra.
