Is it already time for the Exynos 2800? A look toward the future: Samsung Galaxy S28

Around the start of the year Samsung announced the first smartphone chipset manufactured at 2 nm: the Exynos 2600 has found space aboard the Galaxy S26 and S26+ and now all attention is on the next generation (even if the new foldable flagship models are in between).

However, a report from South Korea has prematurely revealed some details about the future Exynos 2800, SoC that will power the Galaxy S28 series. In short, further proof that leaks and rumors never stop (and that there are no batteries).

Samsung is at work on the next Exynos 2800: early rumors about the future of the flagship series and its chipset

As seen at the outset, the company recently launched the Exynos 2600 and yet it seems Samsung is strongly oriented toward the future. Internally there would be the goal of completing the development of the next Exynos 2800 by the end of 2026, even though the market launch is still quite a ways off.

The next year will be dedicated to the Exynos 2700 and the Galaxy S27 family, and yet the timelines don’t appear that unrealistic. The design phase concerns the completion of the chipset design; the next step will be to go through the production plant for actual production. Given the past, it’s normal that the Asian manufacturer intends to get ahead.

The future Exynos 2800 will be produced again by Samsung Foundry and there are rumors of the presence of customized cores and a GPU with an internally developed architecture (without any support from AMD). The chipset, codename Vanguard, will be produced again with a 2 nm process; however it will not be the same as used for the 2600 but the third-generation 2 nm process (also from Samsung Foundry) called SF2P+.

According to the rumors initial plans envisioned the switch to 1.4 nm; however the company would have preferred to focus on improving production yield and on optimizing performance, two points that previously caused not a few headaches. The 1.4 nm process would have been delayed by at least 2 years and should slip to 2029.

Meanwhile the next Exynos 2700 — arriving next year — will use the second-generation 2 nm production process (SF2P), which offers up to 12% higher performance and a 25% improvement in energy efficiency over the first generation.