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No, it's more a matter of nationalistic pride. Exynos has never beaten Qualcomm in terms of practical performance, in any generation, but it usually had the total core advantage for more overall synthetic power, similar to the AMD vs. Intel wars where Intel wins in gaming, and it was closing the gap, but the last generation saw it getting so roundly thumped (even in benchmarks) that they were forced to humiliate their own chip-making division, and pack Qualcomms into their phones sold in their own home market.Are you saying Samsung reserves its best products for Korea and exports its B team products? What an odd business strategy.
Phone are still dominated by what's called the big.LITTLE configuration which is done best by Apple followed by Qualcomm. Ironically, that's where desktop CPUs are headed, I predict. You can already see it in the Turbo strategy with Intel. It's just getting too hot and hungry to keep pushing the frequency up across the whole chip. It's only a matter of time before they separate the primary cores that run really high frequency, shouldering the heaviest software load, from the the ancillary cores that run at a much lower frequency handling the runoff.