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Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S27 Ultra is facing severe overheating with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, prompting throttling that degrades performance of its high‑end camera, graphics and AI features. Samsung has formally asked Qualcomm to resolve the thermal breach by mid‑October; failure to do so could force the Korean OEM to replace the Snapdragon with its in‑house Exynos 2700 for the flagship. The Exynos 2700, a successor to the 2600, incorporates an upgraded Heat Path Block aimed at curbing heat generation, but it remains untested against the Snapdragon’s 2 nm Adreno Neural Fusion architecture. The chip swap would mark a rare deviation from Samsung’s recent strategy of using Qualcomm’s top tier silicon in its Ultra line‑up.