Samsung has started mass-producing the Exynos 2700, the 2nm chip meant for next year's Galaxy S27 phones, Korean media report in a story relayed by SammyGuru. It has moved past small-scale sampling into front-end wafer production on Samsung Foundry's second-generation 2nm process, called SF2P. Volume is said to be more than 10% above the Exynos 2600's.
Samsung plans to use it in the Galaxy S27, S27+ and the new S27 Pro in most markets, including South Korea and Europe. The US and China may still get Qualcomm's Snapdragon.
Samsung's chip division is pushing the phone division to put the Exynos 2700 in the S27 Ultra too, and the phone side hasn't decided. It's still weighing performance, heat, cost and how many chips the SF2P process can turn out. S27 Ultra prototypes with the Exynos are already in testing. Some of those units reportedly carry a slightly larger vapor chamber, which would help with the extra heat.
The Ultra's rival is the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. An internal Samsung Geekbench 6 run reportedly put the Exynos 2700 9.5% ahead of it in multi-core. The Snapdragon scores about 12,856 in that test, so the Exynos would clear 14,000. An earlier internal test is said to have favored the Exynos on CPU, GPU, AI and power efficiency as well.
Those are Samsung's own tests, not benchmarks from a phone anyone can buy, and clock speeds and cooling can move the result.
The S27 line is expected in early 2027. A separate report this week had components for all four models ramping up in mid-October. Samsung hasn't confirmed either one.