[ad_1] But Samsung Foundry's weak returns at the 3nm node prevented Samsung from building enough Exynos 2500 APs in time to be included in Galaxy S25 series. Instead, Samsung decided to equip all of its phones in... Galaxy S25 Compatible with Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy. Because Samsung decided to use Qualcomm chipset at all Galaxy S25 Units this year, the chip designer was able to sell Samsung an additional 12 million units of its flagship, higher-speed application processor for Galaxy phones. The additional $2 billion coming into Qualcomm's coffers will translate into an additional 63 cents for Qualcomm's 2025 earnings per share (EPS). This amount represents 5% of Wall Street's consensus forecast for the San Diego chip designer's 2025 EPS. Qualcomm introduced its Oryon CPU cores in the Snapdragon 8 Elite AP to replace the CPU cores Qualcomm used to license from Arm Holdings. The custom 'For Galaxy' chipset has the highest performance CPU speed of 4.47 GHz compared to 4.32 GHz in the regular variant.
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Samsung’s use of the Snapdragon 8 Elite AP on all Galaxy S25 units is a financial boon for Qualcomm
All phones in The Galaxy S25 series is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Application Processor for Galaxy (AP). The SoC is built by TSMC using the 3nm second generation (N3E) node. This is the first Snapdragon AP to be built on a 3nm node. Traditionally, Samsung is using a variant of its Exynos chip to power the base Galaxy S and Galaxy S+ models everywhere except the US, Canada and China.
Those increased Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy APs Qualcomm brought in an additional $2 billion in revenue gains according to JP Morgan analyst Samik Chatterjee who continues to give Qualcomm stock an overweight rating. Based on the $2 billion Qualcomm received for selling 12 million additional application processors to Samsung, the Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy is priced at $166.67 per chipset. While Qualcomm owned a 70% share of the chips used in Galaxy S24 line, its share of Galaxy S25 Chain 100%.
The Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy scored impressive scores of 3220 and 10223 in the Geekbench single-core and multi-core CPU benchmark test respectively. As we told you on Saturday. While the single core was slightly lower than the 3457 recorded by the A18 Pro processor that runs it The iPhone 16 Pro Max and Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy had a multi-core score that beat the powerful A18 Pro by 20%.
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