As we pointed out in last month's article, this exact thing happened back in 2015 when the Snapdragon 810, made using TSMC's 20nm process node, was overheating. That led Samsung to power the Galaxy S6 in all markets with the 14nm Exynos 7420.
Qualcomm denies that the new Snapdragon 8 chips overheat
Qualcomm denies that its new flagship silicon is overheating. Qualcomm Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Don McGuire responded on X by saying that the overheating claim is "100% NOT accurate." He added, "There are no systemic thermal issues with the 8 Elite Gen 6."
Over the last few years, Samsung has used its dual-chip strategy, and we will use last year's Galaxy flagship as an example. In North America (US and Canada), China, and Japan, the Galaxy S26 and Galaxy S26+ were powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy AP. Everywhere else, those two models featured the Exynos 2600 chipset.
The top-of-the-line Galaxy S26 Ultra was equipped with the Snapdragon chip in all markets, a typical move for Samsung. But this year, not only was there talk about the new Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 overheating, but it turned out that internal benchmark tests performed by Samsung showed that the Exynos 2700 outperformed the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 by 15% to 20% in multi-core CPU tests and high-stress GPU tests.
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With the new Snapdragon chip said to overheat, there has been speculation that Samsung would ditch the dual-chip approach and stick with the Exynos 2700 for all Galaxy S27 models, including the Galaxy S27 Ultra.
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Meanwhile, Samsung is expected to power the Galaxy S27 and Galaxy S27+ with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 in the US, Canada, China, and Japan, and with the Samsung Exynos 2700 everywhere else.
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