Samsung to sell Exynos processors to other smartphone vendors

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Taipei, Jan. 24, 2018 – 

Samsung Electronics plans to begin selling its in-house developed Exynos mobile processors to other smartphone vendors in order to expand the scale of its smartphone chip platform, according to industry sources.

The source said the Samsung move is designed more to boost its own wafer foundry utilization rate and raise its share of the smartphone chip market, especially for midrange models, with Taiwan IC designer MediaTek, now focusing on the segment, likely to bear the brunt of Samsung's aggressive action.

In 2017, Samsung ranked No. 4 in terms of global smartphone chip market share, behind Qualcomm, Apple and MediaTek. But whether the Korean tech giant can smoothly tap into the midrange smartphone chip market and unseat MediaTek as the No.3 player will hinge largely on what additional services Samsung can offer to customers, such as promises of OLED, flash and DRAM supplies as well as competitive wafer foundry cost.

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