Galaxy S26 FE rumors start zeroing in on Samsung’s choice of chipset

• A source claims that Samsung will use an Exynos chip to run this year’s upcoming Galaxy S26 FE.
• Samsung went exclusively with Exynos chips for the S25 FE and S24 FE.
• It’s possible the phone could run the Exynos 2500, the same as in the Z Flip 7.

Today’s smartphone market feels a lot more stable than the landscape looked a decade ago, with manufacturers largely settled in to regular launch schedules and predictable year-on-year upgrades. In spite of that, we still have a few big unknowns that hang over some specific brands — and a major one there involves Samsung, and the company’s choices between using its own Exynos chips, or Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors. Now a new source attempts to set our expectations for how that choice could play out with the Galaxy S26 FE.

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