Samsung's new Exynos 2600 is now official as the world's first SoC built on a 2nm manufacturing process
The new impressive Exynos 2600, is made with the Samsung Foundry's 2nm GAA production process and is the first SoC to be manufactured with this specific process, worldwide.
Now, it has been made official and announced, revealing its full specifications. More specifically, it features 10 cores which are based on the Arm v9.3 architecture and it comes with technology Heat Path Block (HPB) which is responsible for enhanced heat management in the SoC.
According to Samsung, new Exynos 2600 provides improved performance by 39% compared to Exynos 2500, as well as better energy efficiency. All this is due to the production process as well as the core arrangement which consists of a main core, three high-performance cores as well as others six efficiency cores.
More specifically, the main core is the C1-Ultra with a clock speed of 3.8GHz. The tC1 Pro high-performance cores have a clock speeds at 3.25GHz and the others six C1 Pro efficiency cores clocked at 2.75GHz.
Beyond the improvements in CPU performance, Exynos 2600, there are also notable improvements in the AI part. This is due to the new NPU release which Samsung claims to provide 113% improvement in AI performance compared to the previous Exynos SoC.
As for the gaming department, there are improvements there too as the new SoC comes equipped with the Xclipse 960 GPUs, which according to Samsung, provides 50% increased performance in the ray-tracing department and twice the computing performance compared to the Exynos 2500.
In combination with all of the above, thanks to the new system Visual Perception System (VPS) which is based on AI, the Exynos 2600 allows for more accurate recognition of faces and objects in the imaging segment. In addition, supports cameras with sensors up to 320MP and enhances noise reduction during video recording using a new deep learning method.
The other notable features of the new SoC have to do with the LPDDR5X RAM support, internal storage UFS 4.1 and displays with 4K resolution and refresh rates up to 120HzAdditionally, the SoC further enhances security with special features such as security through virtualization as well as hardware-supported hybrid meta-quantum encryption.
So far, the devices on which we are expected to see the new Exynos 2600 are Samsung's upcoming flagships like the Galaxy S26 and its Galaxy S26+It is worth noting, however, that there are rumors indicating that the availability of this particular SoC will remain exclusively for the versions of the devices that will be released on the Korean market.
Whether we will see Samsung's new SoC in the global smartphone market remains unknown for now. We are expected to learn more about the SoC's availability through an official announcement from Samsung itself.








