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- Samsung may replace Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 with Exynos 2700 in Galaxy S27 series due to overheating.
- Samsung told Qualcomm about the overheating issue, Seoul Economic Daily reported.
- Qualcomm says the Gen 6 chip lifts CPU performance 13% and GPU performance 44% versus Gen 5.
- Qualcomm says reports of thermal problems with the Gen 6 chip are inaccurate.
- If Qualcomm fixes the heat issue, Samsung will keep Snapdragon; otherwise it may switch to Exynos.