Samsung launched the Galaxy S25 series with the Snapdragon 8 Elite chip (list of devices with it) worldwide and the reason was reportedly some temporary production issues of the Exynos 2500 chip. Previous reports from South Korea also claimed that both the upcoming foldables will be powered by the Exynos 2500 chip that was supposed to power the Galaxy S25 and S25 Plus in most of the markets worldwide.
However, tipster @PandaFlashPro now claims that the Z Fold7 will use the Snapdragon 8 Elite worldwide.
Even though Samsung has made significant improvements to its in-house chips in the last few years, they are still inferior to the Snapdragon flagships. This is one of the biggest reasons Samsung shifted to a wider adoption of Snapdragon chips starting with the Galaxy S23 series. Although it powered the base and plus models of the S24 series with the Exynos 2400, it again had to power all S25 models with the latest Qualcomm flagship worldwide.
No word for the Z Flip7 yet
It’s important to note that the tipster only mentioned Snapdragon 8 Elite for the Galaxy Z Fold7. It seems that the Exynos 2500 either doesn’t meet the performance requirements for a large-screen foldable or Samsung simply couldn’t produce enough units due to previously reported yield issues. Regardless, we hope Samsung keeps powering at least the book-style foldable with the Snapdragon chips, just as it has done since the first Fold.
The tipster also suggests that the Galaxy Z Fold7 will support S25’s ProScaler feature that can upscale the resolution of the content on-device as you are watching. However, the peak brightness may remain at 2600 units, the same as Z Fold6. The storage and memory configuration also remains the same: 256GB 12GB RAM, 512GB 12GB RAM, and 1TB 12GB RAM.
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As for the Z Flip7, its camera specs were recently leaked, but they aren’t particularly exciting. It looks like Samsung is taking a similar approach to the S25 series with its upcoming foldables—focusing on software upgrades while keeping most of the hardware unchanged.
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