Samsung recently launched the Galaxy S26 and Galaxy S26+, and in some markets both of them are powered by the company’s own Exynos 2600 SoC. Now, a new report from Korea claims that Samsung is already working on the Exynos 2800, which is expected to launch in the Galaxy S28 family in 2028.
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The Exynos 2800 is rumored to be built by Samsung on a 2nm process (specifically SF2P+), and Samsung wants to complete the design of the chipset and hand over the schematics to the foundry “within the year.” After that step, the foundry will create several generations of samples to fine-tune things between them. Only then will mass production of the actual chip begin.
The Exynos 2800 is reportedly codenamed Vanguard (the upcoming Exynos 2700 is codenamed Ulysses). Samsung had planned to use the 1.4nm process from 2027, but has since decided to focus on yield stabilization and optimization rather than chasing size at all costs. SF2P+ is an intermediary step until the 1.4nm process actually arrives in 2029.
The same source claims that the design of the Exynos 2700 has progressed smoothly due to the fact that it is also sticking with 2nm. According to “a semiconductor industry official”, Samsung believes that it has become impossible to miniaturize the process in mobile chipsets every year at the same pace as before.
Instead, the company will also focus on design technology co-optimization – that is the optimization between semiconductor design and manufacturing process technology. It will be applied in new processes which are unfavorable for yield improvement due to low technological maturity.