Chip foundries have come a long way, and the biggest challenge seems to be shaking off a bad reputation. Mediatek, for example, has long been regarded as making budget processors for budget devices. Their new Dimensity 9500 processors, however, can hold their own against Snapdragon and Exynos chips.
TSMC has processor design and production down to not only a science, but an artform: Qualcomm is the go-to brand for a large number of manufacturers. Samsung's in-house Exynos processor has long had a bad reputation as a lesser-quality chip than Qualcomm Snapdragon processors.
Samsung Foundry, however, seems to have finally (better late than never) figured out what went wrong with their Exynos 2500 3nm chips... and are now far ahead on the 2nm process. It may result in a Samsung device as good, maybe even better, than one powered by Qualcomm and at a lower price, since Samsung would be making its own chips.
Samsung wants to equip the Galaxy S26 phones with a 2 nm Exynos 2600 chipset and recent yield results from the company's foundry promise to make that a reality.
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