Qualcomm and Samsung are two of the biggest mobile chipmakers and the companies keep advancing their technologies with each new iteration. They have announced their latest 5nm chipsets and devices powered by them are now making their way to the market.

While Qualcomm had announced its latest Snapdragon 888 chipset last month, smartphones powered by the same are now getting launched. Xiaomi Mi 11, the first phone powered by the SD888 went on sale a few days ago and another device, iQOO 7, is all set to go official this week.

On the other hand, the Samsung Exynos 1080 is manufactured using the 5nm process, and the recently launched Vivo X60 series smartphones powered by the same. The company is also working on Exynos 2100.

Samsung is set to launch its next-generation flagship smartphone — Galaxy S21 lineup on 14th January and those phones are expected to come powered by the Exynos 2100 chipset, which is believed to be revealed at the same event.

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Qualcomm and Samsung are trying their best to capitalize on the hills of Huawei’s absence because of the newly imposed sanctions on the Chinese giant by the United States. Samsung, which so far used to reserve its chipset only for its own smartphones, is now giving it to other mobile makers.

However, in terms of total chipset shipments in the third quarter of 2020, MediaTek emerged as the leading brand with a 31 percent market. Qualcomm and Huawei HiSilicon followed the suite with 29 percent and 12 percent market share. Samsung and Apple came in fourth and fifth with a 12 percent market share each.

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Vivo X60 and X60 Pro smartphones have been leaked for quite some time now and the phones are now expected to go official in China on 29th December. Ahead of the official launch, the company has now started sharing details about the devices.

The company has now confirmed that the Vivo X60 smartphone will come powered by the Samsung Exynos 1080 chipset, which is manufactured using the 5nm EUV FinFET process.

As per the company, the Exynos 1080 SoC from Samsung offers a 14 percent improvement in performance and about 30 percent in power consumption when compared to a chipset manufactured using an 8nm LPP process.

It uses the latest generation of ARM‘s Cortex-A78 core and comes packed with a Mali-G78 graphics processor, which is claimed to improve performance by 25 percent when compared to the Mali-G77 GPU.

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The company has also confirmed that the Vivo X60 series features a brand-new ultra-stable micro-pan-tilt technology 2.0, which can obtain a larger anti-shake angle than the ordinary OIS technology and offers better night mode shooting.

A recent leak reveals that the Vivo X60 features a triple camera system that includes a 48-megapixel primary camera sensor with an f/1.6 aperture. It will be accompanied by a 13-megapixel super-wide lens, and a 13-megapixel portrait camera. It also features second-generation micro-gimbal stabilization powered by ZEISS optics.

Vivo is expected to launch three smartphones under the lineup — Vivo X60, X60 Pro, and X60 Pro+, all three of which are expected to have a 120Hz refresh rate display, Android 11 operating system with OriginOS, and 33W fast charging technology support.

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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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