Samsung's Exynos 2700 enters mass production with 10% higher output than Exynos 2600, says leaker

Samsung has reportedly started mass production of the Exynos 2700, its next flagship smartphone chipset, according to tipster Ice Universe. The leaker claims the 2nm processor has entered front-end wafer production, moving beyond the limited sampling stage that comes before a commercial ramp.

Ice Universe further alleges that this initial run is roughly 10% larger than the Exynos 2600's at the same point in its cycle. The Exynos 2700 is expected to be fabricated on SF2P, an enhanced version of the SF2 process behind the Exynos 2600. Samsung announced the Exynos 2600 in December 2025 as the world's first 2nm chipset built with gate-all-around (GAA) transistors. It uses a 10-core CPU in a one-plus-three-plus-six layout, led by an Arm C1-Ultra prime core clocked at 3.80GHz.

A die shot of the Exynos 2700, leaked by semiconductor research firm SemiAnalysis in early September, points to a reworked 10-core CPU with two prime cores instead of one. The chip reportedly pairs an Arm C2-Ultra core at 4.24GHz and four C2-Pro cores at 3.74GHz with a C1-Ultra core at 3.36GHz and four C1-Pro cores at 2.88GHz. The die also indicates LPDDR6 memory support, 24MB of system-level cache, a large NPU and an Xclipse 970 GPU with the same eight WGPs as the Exynos 2600's Xclipse 960.

Samsung's internal testing reportedly places the Exynos 2700 9.5% ahead of Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 in the Geekbench 6 multi-core benchmark, partly due to a reported 4.00GHz target frequency for the chip's prime core. The leaked results include no power consumption figures or other efficiency metrics, so the performance claim cannot yet be weighed against energy use.

Qualcomm chipsets are still expected to power Galaxy S27 models sold in the US and China. Samsung's MX mobile division is reportedly assessing performance, thermals, cost, and SF2P manufacturing capacity before deciding whether a larger Exynos 2700 order makes economic sense. Staying with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 also carries a high cost, since both are manufactured on TSMC's 2nm N2P process. Samsung has not confirmed whether the Galaxy S27 Ultra will use the Exynos 2700 in any market.

Samsung typically unveils new Exynos flagships shortly before the turn of the year, as it did with the Exynos 2600 on 19 December 2025. An official Exynos 2700 announcement is therefore expected in December 2026, or possibly earlier.