Apple and Qualcomm are progressing nicely with their custom SoC designs, while Samsung and MediaTek continue to play catch-up, thanks to relying on ARM’s CPU cores for years. Unfortunately, for the Korean giant, that was a necessary transition, as the company was forced to drop its adoption of Mongoose cores after witnessing better results from utilizing Cortex designs. However, a major change might be in order, because a new report states that Samsung has formed a ‘Custom SoC Development Team’ aimed to boost competition against its rivals by developing an in-house solution from scratch.

The Exynos 2600 could be Samsung’s last chipset to rely on ARM’s CPU designs, as the company apparently wants an entirely custom solution

Previous benchmark leaks have confirmed that the Exynos 26

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