Samsung recently released the Exynos 1080 SoC in an event streamed online from Shanghai, China. The company has now released an official introduction video that highlighted the key features of the new chipset. The one-and-a-half minute-long promotional video was posted on YouTube and did not provide any new info, as we already know a few things about the chipset. However, the video tries to generate traction around the company’s latest mobile SoC, claiming that it is a “5G processor that makes your phone fly.”
Of course, Samsung is elated with the release of the Exynos 1080 chipset. It is a premium mid-range chipset that will power the next generation of high-end 5G phones principally from Samsung and other phone manufacturers who may want to adopt Samsung’s chipset technology. The chipset has an integrated 5G modem and Samsung says this chipset can deliver “groundbreaking” downlink speeds of up to 5.1Gbps at NR Sub-6GHz networks when operational.
The chipset has an integrated neural processing unit (NPU) for on-device artificial intelligence, AI. The NPU has the potential to offer up to 5.7 TOPS (trillion operations per second) of performance, providing a humongous leap in AI processing, or to use Samsung’s words, introducing “new heights of intelligence.”
The promotional video also mentioned that the Exynos 1080 is one of the first chipsets to get ARM’s new Cortex-A78 CPU cores. It has one Cortex-A78 core at 2.8GHz, delivering speeds that will permanently alter the face of mobile computing. The chipset also has three more Cortex-A78 cores at 2.6GHz. The four power-efficient Cortex-A55 cores operate at a maximum frequency of 2.0GHz. The SoC supports LPDDR5 RAM and UFS 3.1 storage. The latest Mali-G78 MP10 GPU is also added for “artistic graphics.”
The Exynos 1080 is compatible with HDR10+ and a 144Hz screen refresh rate at Full HD+ resolution which makes for “silky screen” and “flowing touches.”
This chipset is capable of supporting camera sensors up to 200-megapixel, thus providing new vistas for mobile photography with AI-powered camera features on the Exynos 1080. The new chipset can also offer HDR10+ video recording in 4K UHD, thus also “redefining” mobile videography.
The Exynos 1080 is Samsung’s first processor designed and produced on a 5nm EUV-based FinFET process, thus providing massive energy (power and heat) savings via low power consumption and higher efficiency, with a reduced chip size (by 25 percent) as compared to the 7nm process.
Samsung says that the Exynos 1080 would offer a 50 percent improvement in single-core performance over previous processors. Additionally, multi-core performance could see a 100 percent increase in performance. Samsung’s hypothesis, however, can only be validated when the chipset becomes operational inside devices.
The Exynos 1080 is projected to debut inside a Vivo smartphone by early 2021.
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