One of the big unknowns about the Samsung Galaxy S25 family has to do with its processors. The company has been suffering from problems with the per-wafer yield of its three-nanometer lithography for more than a year, while rivals continue to rely on TSMC as a safe solution.
TSMC’s manufacturing processes are behind the best processors from Qualcomm and MediaTek, chips that have demonstrated outstanding performance in recent years. So much so, that Samsung itself equipped its flagship, the S24 Ultra, with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. Its younger brothers, although Samsung claimed that the performance was also excellent, settled for Exynos chips.
In a publication by AlphaChip, one of the divisions of the Google DeepMind team, Google has missed a very interesting piece of information: we will have Samsung phones with MediaTek processors.
Google DeepMind has published an entry on its website related to AlphaChip. In the most recent version the previous lines do not appear but, reviewing a version before the fixsome key lines appear.
“External organizations are also adopting and developing AlphaChip. For example, MediaTek, one of the world’s leading chip design companies, expanded AlphaChip to accelerate the development of its most advanced chips – such as the Dimensity Flagship 5G used in mobile phones from Samsung – while improving power, performance and chip surface area.”
MediaTek, who is on the verge of presenting its new Dimensity 9400 processor to compete against the future Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, would be one of the first companies to bet on Google DeepMind technology when developing its new chips.
At the entrance, Google tells us that MediaTek’s flagship processor – or at least, a flagship range – will be present in Samsung mobile phones. MediaTek’s flagship range is made up of the 9XXX models, and Samsung only incorporates high-end processors… in its high-end mobile phones.
Connecting the dots, it is not unreasonable to think that MediaTek and Samsung forge an alliance. The price of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, according to leaks, will skyrocket to $240. Reducing manufacturing costs through an alliance in which the processor is segmented by region, as Samsung has historically done with the Exynos, is a realistic move.
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