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Samsung Mobile SUPPLY CHAIN TRACE

EDGE DEVICES🇰🇷 South Korea · 005930 · KRX

Samsung's Mobile Experience (MX) division is the world's #2 smartphone maker by units (Apple overtook in 2025) and one of the largest single buyers of mobile SoCs globally, sourcing Qualcomm Snapdragon for flagship models while using its own Exynos processors (designed by Samsung LSI and fabbed by Samsung Foundry) in select markets. The Galaxy S25 series and Galaxy AI platform make Samsung Mobile a key node in the on-device AI supply chain, consuming NPU silicon from both Qualcomm and Samsung's own design teams.

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MediaTek

World's #1 mobile SoC designer by volume; Dimensity AI chips compete with Qualcomm/Apple for TSMC advanced node capacity

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CHIP DESIGNERSsupplies Dimensity SoCs to

Qualcomm

Leading mobile SoC and edge AI chip designer (Snapdragon X Elite, Cloud AI 100 inferencing)

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CHIP DESIGNERSsupplies Snapdragon SoCs to

Arm Holdings

Dominant CPU/NPU IP licensor; virtually all AI chips in mobile, edge, and cloud use Arm instruction set

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CHIP IPlicenses Cortex-X/A CPU IP for Exynos SoCs to

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Samsung Mobile

World's largest smartphone maker; uses both Qualcomm Snapdragon and MediaTek in Galaxy phones; integrates Galaxy AI on-device features via NPU

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QWhat is Samsung Mobile's role in the AI chip supply chain?

World's largest smartphone maker; uses both Qualcomm Snapdragon and MediaTek in Galaxy phones; integrates Galaxy AI on-device features via NPU

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