Dec 18, 2025BF3E-0136Partly right
What chip does the Galaxy S26 use?
Ice Universe: Exynos 2600 chip specs leak early
The Exynos 2600 expected in some Galaxy S26 models was said to use a 10-core CPU with a 3.9GHz prime core.
Ice Universe reported in SamMobile that the Exynos 2600 chip, expected in some Galaxy S26 models, would use a 10-core CPU with a 3.9GHz prime core, 69 days before Samsung's announcement.
How to read this record
- What was reportedThe Exynos 2600 expected in some Galaxy S26 models was said to use a 10-core CPU with a 3.9GHz prime core.
- Who said it, and whenIce Universe reported it on Dec 18, 2025 in SamMobile.
- What happened, and whenSamsung Galaxy S26 was announced on Feb 25, 2026, 69 days after this report.
- The verdict, and whyPartly rightSome of this was right and some of it was not.Why: Samsung confirms Exynos 2600 is used in some Galaxy S26/S26+ markets, but its launch spec does not publish the claimed 10-core/3.9GHz CPU configuration.
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- Right
- It turned out the way this report said.
- Partly right
- Some of this was right and some of it was not.
- Wrong
- It did not turn out this way.
- Moving target
- This was right about the plan at the time. The company then changed it.
- Never settled
- The company has announced the product and nobody ever confirmed or denied this.
- Not comparable
- This measured a different thing from the number the company published, so the two cannot be compared.
- No outcome yet
- Nothing has happened yet that would prove this right or wrong.
- Not checked yet
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- Checked
- Checked means the company has since given an answer and we compared it with what was reported. Details still waiting on an answer, details nothing can settle, details where the plan itself changed, and details we have not finished reviewing are all counted separately and are not part of that number.
- Moving target
- A moving target is a report that described the plan accurately at the time, on a product the company then changed. We count these on their own: it would flatter a reporter to call them right, and it would blame a reporter for a decision that was not theirs to call them wrong.
- Reported by
- Ice Universe
- We read it in
- SamMobile
- Product
- Samsung Galaxy S26 · reported as “Galaxy S26”