We are not quite sure just how true this particular report from South Korea is, and whether it might actually see Samsung ditch the entire Exynos 5 effort from their future devices, but we guess there is always the Great Teacher (some say Great Destroyer), Time, to show us the way. I do suppose that executives over at Qualcomm must be singing, “Happy days are here again…”, keeping their fingers crossed that Samsung will fail with the Exynos 5.
Publisher’s note: while this is a post discussing the alleged Exynos production issues, it is worth nothing that it is very unlikely that Samsung would “ditch” it altogether. While production issues often happen early in a chip’s life cycle, most of those problems are worked out and given that Samsung has already demonstrated working samples, the chip logic (design) seems out of danger. Now, the question is whether or not Samsung can produce enough of these chips to meet demand.