With the beginning of the new year, many companies are up with new launches. On 12th January, the South Korean tech giant Samsung also came up with its latest flagship processor Exynos 2100. And, according to the news speculating around, the company will be powering its upcoming Galaxy S21 series of smartphones using the newly launched chipset.
Samsung Powerful Mobile Processor Exynos 2100
Samsung just introduced its very first premium 5G-integrated mobile processor SoC composed on a 5nm process node. The new launch is basically in competition with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888, where Samsung has also added new features to their processor such that to stand out with its specifications.
Like Samsung’s previous launch, the Exynos 1080, the new Exynos also does not support the custom CPU microarchitecture. To raise the performance of the processor, Samsung has partnered with the leading technology provider of processor IP, Arm. The new processor will also be including the ARM second-generation Valhall architecture-based ARM Mali-G78 GPU as compensation for its previous mistakes of not having its own custom ARM-based performance cores added to its predecessor processors.
“Our Exynos team has been committed to creating premium mobile computing experiences by bringing innovations to processors that are at the heart of today’s smart devices. Today we are delighted to introduce the Exynos 2100, our most advanced mobile processor yet. Armed with powerful processing technologies and an advanced 5G modem on a power-efficient 5nm process node, Exynos 2100 will set a new standard for tomorrow’s flagship mobile devices,” said Inyup Kang, President of System LSI Business at Samsung Electronics.
What is New in Exynos 2100?
Exynos 2100 is a high-speed octa-core chipset. It has got one Cortex-X1 (core clocked at 2.9GHz), three high-performing Cortex-A78 (with a speed up to 2.8GHz), and four power-efficient Cortex-A55 cores (clocked at 2.2Ghz) performance CPUs from Arm. Adding to that, Samsung has declared that the new processor will offer a 30% better performance than the Exynos 990, and 10% better overall performance, with 20% lesser battery consumption. The company clearly mentioned that the chipset will provide up to 26-trillion-operations-per-second (TOPS) over twice the power efficiency making the processor faster than its previous versions.
The company has also done excellent work to fulfill all the AI needs of today’s time, such that offering support for Augmented Reality (AR)/Virtual Reality (VR) or Mixed Reality(MR). The chipset also boasts the advanced multi-IP governor (AMIGO), which will be a key technology to optimize the power usage for the CPUs, GPUs as well as other processes, resulting in lesser battery consumption and extended use time.
Other Features
Other than that, the processor will provide support for UFS 3.1 and UFS 2.1 storage. It will also be supporting the LPDDR5 RAM. As mentioned earlier, the chipset has got a built-in 5G (sub-6GHz/mmWave) modem, it will also continue to implement support for 4G LTE (1024 QAM), 3G WCDMA, and 2G GSM/CDMA networks as well. The processor also features support for Bluetooth 5.2 and Wi-Fi 6.
Camera-wise too, the company has done a great job. The new Exynos 2021 is compatible to provide support for up to 200MP sensors and 4K UHD video recording at 120 frames per second (fps). It also comes with the ability to decode the 8K video at 60fps.
The Vice President and General Manager Client Line of Business at Arm, Paul Williamson, said during the launch that the new technologies, such as 5G, advanced graphics and machine learning have played a critical role in enabling new mobile experiences. “ Arm and Samsung have collaborated closely to incorporate Arm’s powerful next-generation compute and graphics platform, at the heart of the Samsung Exynos 2100,” he added.
Noticeably, the launch event for the new Exynos 2100 took place two days ahead of the launch of Samsung’s new Galaxy S21, its next high-end flagship Galaxy S phone. The company confirmed that the processors have already been gone to mass production, and the new Galaxy S21 launching in India will also feature this latest processor in it.
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