Whether you’re a Samsung fan or an impartial Android observer, we can all agree that Samsung’s Exynos chipsets have had a rocky few years. The Galaxy S23 skipped Exynos entirely due to inconsistent performance, overheating, and poor efficiency, while the Galaxy S25 also sidelined it — likely influenced by Qualcomm’s major leap with the Snapdragon 8 Elite, alongside reported low yields from Samsung’s 3nm process.The Exynos 2500 eventually surfaced in last year’s Z Flip 7, but that wasn’t a mainstream showing. But now that we have the Galaxy S26 series, complete with Exynos 2600, Samsung thinks its custom processor is ready to compete with the best in the business once more.