Samsung is one of the few smartphone makers capable of designing its own chipsets. Earlier this week, the company announced Exynos 880 with an integrated 5G modem for mid-range handsets. Now, it has quietly listed a chip called Exynos 850 on its website for budget handsets. The first smartphone to use this SoC is Galaxy A21s which has been already announced a few days back.
The new Exynos 850 is an 8nm chip consisting of an octa-core CPU made of ARM Cortex-A55 cores that are clocked up to at 2.0GHz. Whereas, the graphic duties are handled by the ARM Mali-G52 GPU.
As for hardware compatibility, this chip can support up to FHD+ (2520×1080 pixels) display, LPDDR4x RAM, and eMMC 5.1 storage. Talking about cameras, it can support up to 16MP + 5MP dual-camera setup or 21.7MP single camera (same for the front as well), 60fps FHD video recording, and video codecs like HEVC(H.265), H.264, and VP8.
Lastly, for connectivity, the chipset supports Cat.7 LTE DL (downlink), Cat.13 UL (uplink), WiFi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 5.0, FM Radio, and GNSS such as GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, and Galileo.
The Exynos 850 nm chipset is currently being mass manufactured and thus we can expect it to power more budget more Samsung Galaxy A and M series of phones.
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