An informal meeting between Samsung Chairman Lee Jae-Yong and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has attracted a crowd, which also led the Samsung leader to poke fun at the iPhone users who gathered to see these high-profile leaders.

On October 30th, Huan, Lee Jae Yong, and Hyundai Chairman Chung Eui-sun met for a casual dinner of Korean fried chicken and beer in Seoul. The three moguls met at around 7:30 pm at Kkanbu Chicken, a popular restaurant near Samseong Station on Subway Line No. 2 in the affluent Gangnam district.

They shared the dinner and also performed a love shot, a symbolic gesture of closeness often seen in Korean drinking culture. The meeting lasted for about an hour, and then the three left in a single vehicle.

Lee Jae-yong said that he is happy that the US tariff problem is resolved, and “I realize happiness isn’t about much – eating good food and sharing drinks with good people.” He later thanked the government officials for resolving the differences between the two countries to foster business.

However, there was a time when Lee looked at the gathered crowd and noticed that there were so many iPhone users. He asked, “Why are there so many iPhones?” and then laughed, and the crowd closely followed.

IDC Korea has reported 3.32 million units in the second quarter of 2025, with a 10.9% upstream from a year earlier. The researcher noted that the strong demand for the Galaxy S25 series has provided a growth momentum for the market. However, the forecasts and results for Q3 are yet to come.

On the other hand, the foldable smartphone shipment has reached 110,000 units with a double-digit growth compared to last year. Still, Apple has its fans all around the globe, and Korea is no exception.

Below, you can check the live feed of the meeting (via @Jukanlosreve) showing the Samsung Chairman poking fun at iPhone users.

Samsung Chairman Lee Jae-yong (live): “Why are there so many iPhones here?” pic.twitter.com/Cu4H2xh5ol

— Jukan (@Jukanlosreve) October 30, 2025

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Samsung has announced that 2026 could be a big year for Exynos, which means Exynos 2600 will make its huge leap in performance competition, and we’ve compared early signs of upgrades through benchmarking against Exynos 2500 to get a better understanding of what’s heading our way.

Exynos 2600 is expected to be a major performance upgrade and power efficiency over previous top-tier processors. The reason behind these new developments is the 2nm technology process, and it appears that Samsung has also learned some new optimizations for system-on-chip design to make the processor competitive against its rivals.

This information makes the advanced chip launch worthwhile waiting, but we don’t have to wait for a full revelation for this chip to show its real power because Exynos 2600 has already appeared on Geekbench, and here’s what we’ve found in the listing.

• Single-core – 3455 points
• Multi-core – 11621 points

Its base frequency is 2.76GHz and benchmarked with the 10-core architecture, the same as Exynos 2500, but with a different cluster combination.

• Cluster 1 has 6 cores at 2.76GHz
• Cluster 2 has 3 cores at 3.26GHz
• Cluster 3 has a single core at 3.80GHz

Source – Jukanlosreve/X

Compared to this, the Exynos 2500 on Flip 7 had 2342 single-core and 7472 multi-core performance. Its base frequency is 1.80GHz, and the CPU architecture has four clusters, instead of three.

• Cluster 1 has 2 cores at 1.80GHz
• Cluster 1 has 5 cores at 2.36GHz
• Cluster 1 has 2 cores at 2.75GHz
• Cluster 1 has a single core at 3.30GHz

Comparison

The Exynos 2600 is 1113 points ahead in single-core performance and 4149 points in multi-core. These are 47.52% and 55.33% performance improvements, respectively, in both segments.

That means the Exynos 2600 is faster for everyday tasks and heavy application usage, which makes it more reliable compared to Exynos 2500. The platform that the benchmark may also be a major factor, the new chip might receive a run on Galaxy S26, but the model wasn’t mentioned on the benchmarking platform.

Earlier in the Q3 business report, Samsung mentioned that it will opt for the Exynos Flagship in key flagship phones. Read more here.

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Samsung has officially confirmed that Galaxy flagship phones releasing in 2026 will use the new Exynos processor with competitive performance.

The phone maker has made it clear that the next-gen Exynos chipset will be used for “key flagship models” in 2026. The company hasn’t clarified these models, but it’s likely to be referenced for the Galaxy S26 series. Exynos has been at the center of Samsung’s semiconductor strategy for Galaxy smartphones, but lacks in its foundry process for this chipset has caused a serious meltdown in performance.

On one hand, Samsung was troubled by the declining performance and poor thermal protection. On the other hand, Qualcomm kept on polishing its Snapdragon chip for flagship phones. Since Exynos is no longer taking part in the competition, Samsung fully turned its sights to Snapdragon’s premium chipset, and the Galaxy S series left all of the worries created by the Exynos chip.

The company is once again plotting a major shift in its chipset integration for the S-series phones. Leaks and rumors already indicate that the Galaxy S26 series will feature the Exynos 2600 chip, a sign of Samsung re-trusting this Snapdragon rival. This movement clearly reflects on the company’s Q3 business result, where Samsung remained quite vocal on Exynos’ next year’s implementation plan.

Rumors also had it that the Galaxy S26 series will fully adopt this chipset from the base to the Ultra model. If so, Samsung will have to lock this choice in some countries/regions. However, Samsung will include Snapdragon for the top model in the majority of markets due to its stable performance. We can add the possibility of Samsung shipping this chip with the non-Ultra models, just like the Galaxy S24 series. Similarly, the Galaxy Z Flip 8 and Fold 8 may also follow this chipset integration.

For 2026, Samsung is expected to launch the Exynos 2600 chipset, processed with its in-house 2nm technology. A recent Geekbench score leak shows that the company has come far from the 3nm processed Exynos 2500 featured in the Galaxy Z Flip 7.

Samsung’s optimism about the 2026 Exynos chipset is amusing, but its on-board performance will be worth comparing with Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 while discussing some serious upsides of the 2nm technology battle.

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