It has been a while since Samsung released a flagship device powered by their Exynos chipset. Last year, the Galaxy S22 units were launched in a few markets with the Exynos 2200 SoC, but these variants left users disappointed as they offered underwhelming performance compared to their Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 counterparts. Taking note of these shortcomings, Samsung sided with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset for all S23 units this year, abandoning the Exynos 2300 chip. Surprisingly, a mysterious smartphone featuring the supposedly doomed chipset has appeared on Geekbench.

Exynos 2300 rises from the dead

An unknown Samsung smartphone with model number SM-S919O was spotted on the Geekbench website. The device doesn’t match the description of any Samsung phone available in the market, suggesting it’s a prototype that someone’s toying with. The listing suggests the device runs the Exynos 2300 chip with a total of nine cores in three clusters. Most processors in the market get an octa-core architecture. Its prime core is clocked at 2.6 GHz, four performance cores at 2.59 GHz, and four efficiency cores at 1.82 GHz.

Exynos 2300 Geekbench

However, it appears that the Samsung SM-S9190, which features this chipset, will not be produced as the chipset itself has reportedly been canceled. On the other hand, reports indicate that Samsung is actively developing the new Exynos 2400 chip, which is expected to feature a 10-core architecture. This upcoming SoC is likely to power certain models of the Samsung Galaxy S24, scheduled for release next year.

There are rumors suggesting that Samsung is working on the Galaxy S23 FE, and it may debut with the older Exynos 2200 chipset. However, there is a possibility that instead of the controversial Exynos 2200, the Korean company might consider equipping its fan edition model with the Exynos 2300. Nevertheless, this is purely an assumption at this point.

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