Samsung may use MediaTek chips on Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25 Plus

The Samsung Galaxy S25 and Galaxy S25 Plus may not go back to using Qualcomm or even Exynos as the company could opt for MediaTek’s flagship chips. A new report has claimed that the standard and Plus models in Samsung’s next year’s flagship phones will rock Dimensity 9400 chipsets, offering significant performance and efficiency improvements over the Exynos chipsets.

The speculation that Samsung may be inclined towards MediaTek chipsets for the next Galaxy S series phones comes from Google, which published a statement on September 26 to highlight how its DeepMind technology is helping chipmakers to offer better performance and productivity on a range of devices.

The statement reads: External organisations are also adopting and building AlphaChip. For example, MediaTek, one of the top chip design companies in the world, extended AlphaChip to accelerate the development of their most advanced chips – like the Dimensity Flagship 5G used in Samsung mobile phones – while improving power, performance, and chip area.

That chunk indicates that MediaTek’s next flagship processor is coming to Samsung and will rightly be used on the company’s flagship phones. Samsung has never used a top-end MediaTek processor on a phone previously, although its Galaxy Tab S10 series tablets are based on Dimensity 9300+ SoC. And if DeepMind’s statement holds any water, the Dimensity 9400 will replace Exynos, which replaced Snapdragon last year. That means better performance, efficiency, and support for AI tools as Galaxy S24 users have complained about the inconsistent performance of Samsung’s in-house processor.

But the MediaTek chipsets will likely be available on the Galaxy S25 and Galaxy S25 Plus. The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, on the other hand, could come with the upcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 chipset, much like its predecessor. Samsung launched the Galaxy S24 Ultra in January with Qualcomm’s top-end Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset, while the rest two phones in the series came with Exynos processors.