If you can, you should wait until 2023 to buy an Android smartphone. The Chinese market observer and leaker Ice Universe promises via Twitter that you will then be rewarded with more efficient and all-around problem-free smartphone flagships.
Samsung Galaxy S23 series worldwide without Exynos 2300
The reason, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo: Qualcomm will continue to expand its market dominance in the Android high-end segment in 2023, because the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has been explicitly optimized for 4 nm production at TSMC and is difficult to achieve in terms of efficiency and performance beat, especially for Samsung’s Exynos 2300, which is no longer competitive. Critics may note that Samsung’s Exynos alternative in the Galaxy S class has been lagging behind its US-American Qualcomm counterpart for years, but next year the South Koreans are likely to pull the ripcord and all Galaxy S23 models with the internal SM8550 named Qualcomm chip.
A few weeks ago it was read from South Korea that Samsung wants to score with a newly developed “Galaxy Silicon” from 2025, i.e. a processor architecture optimized exclusively for Samsung flagships, analogous to the Apple A-series model. Until then, the Exynos production is said to be on hold, which Ming-Chi Kuo does not appeal to. Either way, 2023 should be a good year for European Samsung fans, who will probably no longer be fobbed off with second-class Galaxy flagships.
Processor power efficiency is the most important factor in the user experience of a mobile phone. Snapdragon 8 Gen2 will give birth to a large number of excellent flagship phones, low heat, high battery life, smooth and stable, and even the camera will perform better.
— Ice universe (@UniverseIce) July 9, 2022
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1. Qualcomm will likely be the sole processor supplier for Samsung Galaxy S23 (vs. 70% shipment proportion for S22) thanks to the next flagship 5G chip SM8550 made by TSMC 4nm.— 郭明錤 (Ming-Chi Kuo) (@mingchikuo) July 8, 2022
