What you need to know • Samsung will reportedly ship the Exynos 2600 exclusively in Korea, with all global Galaxy S26 models switching to Snapdragon. • The Exynos 2600 is expected to use Samsung’s upgraded 3nm GAP process, custom CPU cores, and a new AMD-backed Xclipse GPU, but those upgrades may stay local. • The move contradicts earlier expectations of a broader Exynos comeback.

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Samsung’s chipset shuffle returns, this time with a twist: the Exynos 2600 may ship only in Korea, while the rest of the world uses Snapdragon hardware.

What makes this shift interesting is how sharply it c

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