Dimensity chips could be powering the Galaxy S line but MediaTek fell short due to one key problem،
This year, Samsung's flagship Galaxy S24 series is powered by two application processors, the local Exynos 2400 SoC and the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset for Galaxy. THE Galaxy S24 And Galaxy S24+ are powered by the Exynos 2400 SoC in all markets except the US and China where these units have the Snapdragon 8 generation 3 for Galaxy under the hood. The high-end Galaxy S24 Ultra carries the Snapdragon 8 generation 3 for the Galaxy chipset in each region.
According to Revegnus, Samsung planned to use the Dimensity 9000 chipset, released in the first quarter of 2022, to power its Galaxy S line. But MediaTek only produced 10 million units of the chipset, which obviously wasn't enough to meeting Samsung's requirement that MediaTek have 30-35 million Dimensity 9000 chips for its flagship series.
The recent rumor that MediaTek's flagship hotspot will be used in Samsung's flagship phones is not true.
– Samsung had previously considered using the Dimensity 9000 in the Galaxy S series, but due to lack of supply from MediaTek, this deal did not materialize.
– Furthermore, most…
– Revegnus (@Tech_Reve) March 9, 2024
Now here's something to think about. Imagine the Galaxy S series using a powerful chipset with four Cortex-X4 processor cores running at a clock speed of up to 3.25 GHz and four capable Cortex-A720 processor cores. Yes, that's right, the Dimensity 9300 SoC does not include any low-power CPU cores. Unfortunately, we'll never know what could have happened, as MediaTek had agreed to sell most of the Dimensity 9300 chipsets produced to Chinese phone makers like Vivo for its X100 Pro handset.
Samsung has already signed a deal with Qualcomm to use Snapdragon chipsets for the Galaxy S25 and Galaxy S26 series which are expected to be released in 2025 and 2026 respectively. As Revegnus notes in his tweet: “Even though Qualcomm Snapdragon chips are expensive, from the point From Samsung's perspective, Qualcomm is a customer of Samsung's foundry production, and from Qualcomm's perspective, Samsung is also its largest customer. It is very unlikely that a company like MediaTek would do this. dare to intervene between Qualcomm and Samsung and provide AP to Samsung.
Ultimately, even if MediaTek manages to gain more business supplying silicon for high-end phones, this list won't include the Galaxy S line until 2027 at the earliest.
