These days we talk about both next generation Samsung Galaxy S25 to SoC Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 It’s an exercise in futurism, of course, as we’re still a few months away from Qualcomm’s top-of-the-line SoC seeing the light of day, and a few more months until Samsung updates its top-of-the-line design. However, we already know what the sector is like and the progress that leaks will make in what’s to come. Not for nothing, as I recalled earlier when I talked about the Pixel 9, which will not hit the market until October, there is already information about the SoC that will debut in the next generation.

As we told you a few months ago, we hope so the future generation Galaxy S25 has a continuous profile in all its aspects, both in terms of aesthetics and in terms of its specifications and performance. And until now, that included thinking the Korean tech company would iterate on different SoCs depending on the model, with its own Exynos 2500 in some and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 in the top-of-the-line models.

This approach was based on what has been leaked so far about the Exynos 2500, integrated which on paper They were aiming pretty high., with its ten cores and Xclipse GPU based on AMD’s RDNA 4 architecture and aimed to manufacture on Samsung’s 3nm node. But as you can see, I am speaking in the past tense, although we must take into account the same thing as always when we talk about rumors and leaks, which is to take them with a grain of salt.

I’m talking in the past tense because the popular and generally evasive Ming-Chi Kuo said on his Twitter account that The Galaxy S25 generation will use only Qualcomm SoCthereby ruling out the use of the own Exynos 2500. The reason is, as we can read in the same announcement, that the performance achieved by the integrated does not match the company’s expectations, so it is logical that they do not want to play with their flagship next generation.

The main problem, as Kuo points out, is that the combination of this generation’s improvements and greater demand is set to increase the price of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 significantly, between 20% and 25%, above what was previously expected, something that will undoubtedly be reflected in the devices that integrate it, further pushing the price of the top of the range to levels that would have been simply unthinkable a few years ago. And the big question is whether this will affect their sales volume or again users will assume this and continue to bet on these devices.