New Delhi: Samsung has officially and finally announced its latest Exynos 2600 as its latest flagship-grade mobile SoC, part of its in-house silicon efforts. The newest processor is touted as not only Samsung’s but the world’s first built on a 2nm process with the advanced GAA technology. Exynos is claimed to combine CPU, GPU, and NPU into a single compact chip for an enhanced AI and gaming experience. Exynos 2600 is expected to debut early next year, most likely in the upcoming Galaxy S26 series. The Exynos chipset sits above the Exynos 2600 as the newest mobile processor flagship device. The chip is built on Samsung Foundry’s 2-nanometre GAA fabrication process. It features a proprietary CPU with eight cores.
The architecture comprises a C1-Ultra core clocked at 3.8GHz, three C1-Pro cores operating at 3.25GHz, and six C1-Pro cores capped at 2.75GHz. Samsung also stated that the Galaxy devices running this chipset will support up to LPDDR5X RAM and UFS 4.1 storage. Exynos feature the Samsung Xclipse 960 deca-core GPU based on ARMv9.3 architecture and an AI engine with 32K MAC NPU as part of the single integrated chipset. It also has support for ARM’s Scalable Matrix Extension 2, an Instruction Set Architecture extension, which can accelerate AI and ML-based applications and provide enhanced support for matrix operations. This enhancement is claimed to improve the overall CPU computing performance up to 39%, while also boosting the power efficiency.
Samsung claims an improvement 133% in generative AI performance and up to 50% better ray-tracing performance. It also features the Exynos Neural Super Sampling technology, which is stated to boost gaming experiences by leveraging AI-based resolution upscaling and frame generation technologies. It also optimises the heat transfer path for more efficient heat dissipation. This is claimed to be effective as a heat sink and lower thermal resistance up to 16%. The chip also supports on-device with the maximum 4K or WQUXGA resolution with up to 120Hz refresh rate. The Exynos 2600 chip will be able to support up to a 300MP single camera sensor or 64MP + 32MP dual camera configurations. It also supports single-camera video recording at 108MP resolution and 30 frames per second, and 8K 30FPS encoding and decoding. Samsung also stated that the Exynos 2600 has hardware-backed hybrid Post-Quantum Cryptography, which enables ROM-rooted protection for future-proof security.
