Vivo‘s executive vice president, Hu Baishan was recently interviewed by Phoenix Network Technology. During the interview, the VP confirmed that Vivo will launch 5G products with Samsung chip by the end of the year. 
Hu Baishan was apparently referring to upcoming midrange Vivo smartphones packing a 5G Exynos 980 chipset. When Samsung announced the 5G Exynos 980 chipset, it did hint that it has secured a partnership with Vivo to develop 5G products fired up by the SoC. The product was expected to be launched by the end of the year.
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The Exynos 980 is an 8nm octa-core processor with 2x high-performance Cortex-A77 cores clocked at 2.2GHz and 6x efficient Cortex-A55 cores clocked at 1.8GHz. It has a Mali-G76 MP5 GPU which is said to be built for gaming. It supports LPDDR4x RAM and UFS 2.1 and eMMC 5.1 storage. The maximum display resolution supported is WQHD+ and supports 20MP dual cam and 108MP single camera. The chipset also supports WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.0, and GNSS. The Exynos 980 comes integrated with 5G baseband in the SoC but is actually a mid-range chipset.
He also spoke about rumours of a self-developed chip from the company, stating that the company was focusing on bring out products that meet the needs of consumers. However, it is presently planning to establish a team of 300-500 persons to collaborate with partners to define the self-developed chip.
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